Caple v. Drew’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1941
5 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 Matter of Clark · In re the Alleged Lunacy of Lindsley · Immanuel's Gemeinde v. Keil · In re Beaumont · Martin v. Stewart
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . any person whose mind, by reason of brain sickness, has become unsound, rendering such person incapable of managing or caring for his own estate or rendering him dangerous to himself or others, or who is in such condition of mind or body as to be a fit subject for care and treatment in a hospital for brain disease or insanity.” (It. S. 76-1203.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rouse v. Taylor
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.