Makemson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 1959
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Downing v. Siddens · Sabin v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Where one is found to be incompetent it is the duty of a committee to care for the person as well as the property of such person, * Also see, 25 Am.Juris., Guardian and Ward, Section 64, p. 43.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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