Vail v. Vail’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 1991
4 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 Hickman v. Rusk State Hospital
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is our view that appeal from a judgment of the County Court, sitting in probate, in a suit for adjudication of mental competency under the Mental Health Code, is to the District Court, and this Court is without jurisdiction of the appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Connolly v. Eidinoff
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.