Neitzel v. Purchase’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1951
4 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 Thompson v. Ish · In Re the Estate of Nelson · In re the Estate of Shapter · Olson v. Court of Honor · In re Will of Hunt
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Having held in the case last cited that the right to waive the statutory privilege extends to the personal representative of a deceased person, consistency and justice require a construction which permits an executor or a legatee to compel a physician to testify to the mental condition of his patient, when that question is involved in a contest with the heirs over the probate of the patient's will. Though the courts of the country are divided on this question, the construction here announced has frequently been adopted under similar statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Coons'estate“The real controversy is between the heirs at law and the principal legatee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Coons'estate
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.