Dennett v. Dennett’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1996 · most notably Johnson v. Harmon (1876), Boardman v. Woodman (1866)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 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 Jackson ex. rel. Cadwell v. King · Pettes v. Bingham · of Converse v. Converse · In re Barker
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question, then, in all eases where incapacity to contract from defect of mind is alleged, is not whether the person’s mind is impaired, nor if he is affected Dy any form of insanity, but whether the powers of his mind have been so far affected by his disease as to render him incapable of transacting business like that in question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. Davenport
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.