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← 438 NE2D 759 - Duwe v. Rodgers

Duwe v. Rodgers’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2015
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 168 Ind. App. 336 - Hale v. Peabody Coal Company · Snyder v. Snyder

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “of unsound mind” to include “idiots, noncompotes (non compos mentis), lunatics and distracted persons.” Eighteen years was established as the age of majority in 1973, replacing the former definition "persons within the age of twenty-one (21) years.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “distracted person” was construed to mean “a person who by reason of his or her mental state is incapable of managing or procuring the management of his or her ordinary affairs.”
    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.