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82 U.S. 9 · 1872

Citation profile

111
cited by 111 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
23
states following
March 2017
most recently cited

29 federal appellate · 10 district · 53 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 111 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Barefoot v. Estelle (1983), Quimby v. Greenhawk (1934)

29 federal appellate · 10 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 23 states

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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 Pelham v. Way

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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] person non compos mentis, has nothing which the law recognizes as a mind, and it would seem, therefore, upon principle, that he cannot make a contract which may have any efficacy as such. He is not amenable to the criminal laws, because he is incapable of discriminating between that which is right and that which is wrong. The government does not hold him responsible for acts injurious to itself. Why, therefore, should one who has obtained from him that which purports to be a contract be permitted to hold him bound by its provisions, even until he may choose to avoid it? If this may be, efficacy is given to a form to which there has been no mental assent.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Edwards v. Davenport · Parker v. Marco
  2. ““The. power of attorney of a lunatic, or of one non compos mentis, is void””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Oklahoma Power Co. v. State Industrial Com.

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.