Sturtevant v. Sturtevant’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 1951 · most notably Wayne v. Huber (1930), In Re Will of Robert Carr (1927)
54 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 Stubbs v. Houston · Brinkman v. Rueggesick · Stackhouse v. Horton · Scott v. Gerrish · McClary v. Stull
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A delusion is a fixed belief in a proposition which has no foundation in evidence, and which is so extravagant that a reasonable man would not adhere to it. It is a fixed and extravagant belief that a fact exists where there is no evidence to furnish a basis to such belief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parrott v. Creson
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.