Travis v. Travis’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Farrington v. Harrison (1928), Markell v. Hilpert (1939)
2 federal appellate · 82 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 Farrell v. Forest Investment Co. · Waterman v. Higgins · Miller v. Berry · Smith v. O'Brien · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Sandlin
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The only question presented and argued is whether in view of the evidence, the decree should have been for defendant; the contention being -that the evidence was sufficient to establish the fact of the mental incompetency of the grantor to make a valid deed at the time of the execution of the conveyance.” 87 South Rep., text 762.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Saunders
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.