Young v. Lorain’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably The People v. Kidd (1947), O'Brien v. People ex rel. Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co. (1905)
43 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The statute sets out with authorizing the court, ‘ for just and reasonable cause, being satisfied that the guardian has faithfully applied all the personal estate,’ to order the real estate to be sold; and in a subsequent joart of the section, it provides that the sale may be ordered for either of two purposes : first, for the support and education of the ward, and, second, that the proceeds of the sale may be invested in other real estate. Now, by the literal expressions of the act, it might seem that the personal estate must be exhausted before a sale could be ordered, where the sole object was to invest the proceeds in other real estate, but we can hardly believe that such could have been the design of the legislature, for, certainly, the existence of personal estate could have nothing to do in determining the question whether the interest of the ward would be promoted by a change of the investment in real estate. It would seem to be more reasonable to suppose that the ‘ just and reasonable cause,’ which is required to be shown, and the facts which the statute requires to be stated in the petition, should govern the court in determining whether the interest of the ward required a change of the investment, without regard to the existence of personal estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Orman v. Bowles“While it remains a judgment, it cannot be inquired into, nor its regularity questioned, in any collateral proceeding. In another action, the inquiry is not whether the court acted properly, but had it a right to act at all?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.