Rowe v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1949
22 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 Mackall v. Mackall · Towson v. Moore · Slack v. Rees · Post v. Hagan · Ralston v. Turpin
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A party of normal mentality is entitled to dispose of his own in such manner as he sees fit. Carnagie v. Diven, 31 Or. 366, 368 ( 49 P. 891 ); Dean v. Dean, 42 Or. 290, 299 ( 70 P. 1039 ); Reeder v. Reeder, 50 Or. 204, 206 ( 91 P. 1075 ); Deckenbach v. Deckenbach, 65 Or. 160, 165 ( 130 P. 729 ); Wade v. Northup, 70 Or. 569, 578 ( 140 P. 451 ).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laughlin v. Ludgate““A fiduciary relation may exist in the absence of a trust or agency. It is found with its accompanying burdens and disqualifications wherever there is confidence reposed on one side and resulting superiority and influence on the other * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bliss v. Bahr““The test of mental capacity to make a deed is that a person shall have ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which he is engaged and the business which he is transacting.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laughlin v. Ludgate
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.