Hernandez v. Banks’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
3
states following
July 2018
most recently cited
1 district · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Arizona v. Gant · Lawrence v. Texas · M. A. P. v. Ryan · District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the contracts of mentally incapacitated persons are void, rather than voidable, their legal protection is the opposite of what it should be-{ilt would be a handcuff instead of a shield.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[elvolving understanding of mental illness and advances in medicine have shown that mental capacity can vary over time and is susceptible to significant improvement with treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“having the choice of whether to follow through on a contract or avoid it can be very beneficial to a person who entered © into the contract during a period of incapacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.