Sengstack v. Sengstack’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Winters v. Miller (1971), Von Bulow by Auersperg v. Von Bulow (1986)
11 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wurster v. . Armfield · Goodale v. . Lawrence · Matter of Frank · In Re the Probate of the Will of Lamport
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This same position appears to be taken by the courts of other jurisdictions. It does not mean that the courts shut their eyes to the special need of protection of a litigant actually incompetent but not yet judicially declared such. There is a duty on the courts to protect such litigants [citation omitted]. * * * “ It is easy to suggest that the court here should have insisted that a committee be appointed. However, since under section 207 of the Civil Practice Act there is no absolute legal bar against the prosecution of such a suit by plaintiff herself as an unadjudged incompetent the question as to how best to protect her interests was ione of discretion for the lotoer courts (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘ ‘ There is a method under article 81 of the Civil Practice Act for officially establishing incompetency and unless and until that is done the courts should not have to decide case by case whether a particular party is of sufficient mentality to be a suitor or defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a person of unsound mind but not judicially declared incompetent may sue or be sued in the same manner as any other person”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.