In re Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 1988
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Draper v. Louisville Nashville Railroad Co. · Klotsch v. P. F. Collier & Son Corp. · Lolordo v. Lacy · Black v. Epstein · Maginnis v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“... an incompetent is a person who is incapable by reason of insanity, mental illness, imbecility, idiocy, senility, habitual drunkenness, excessive use of drugs, or other incapacity, of either managing his property or caring for himself or both [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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