Murphy v. Nett’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Silloway v. Jorgenson (1965), Gardiner v. Goertner (1932)
57 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 In re Estate of McDevitt · Estate of Dolbeer · In Re the Estate of Nelson · In Re Estate of Carithers · Noyes v. Gerard
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * But to cases of intermittent or occasional insanity it can have no application, because in the very nature of things the idea of continuity is excluded. So that, when this is the condition, proof of its existence at one time raises no presumption that it existed either at an antecedent or subsequent time. The question for determination is: Was the testator of sound mind at the time the will was executed? If he was, his precedent and subsequent condition is immaterial. [Citing authority.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Bodin's Estate
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.