Bensieck v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 1970 · most notably 161 Mo. App. 185 - Royal Mining Company v. Fidelity Casualty Co. (1911), City of St. Louis v. United Railways Co. (1915)
3 federal appellate · 56 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 State ex rel. Ozark County v. Tate · McClanahan v. West · Brown v. Bowen · Dunn v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad · Horstkotte v. Menier
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The trial court pursued the right course in appointing a guardian ad litem for defendant, Joseph Cook. Mitchell v. Kingman, 5 Pick. 431 ; Buswell on Insanity, sec. 132; Sturges v. Longworth, 1 Ohio St. 544 . And the power of the court to appoint such a guardian, of necessity, concedes the power of the court, upon the proper basis of facts being presented, to render a judgment as binding on the lunatic and his property interests, as a similar judgment would be upon a sane person."”
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.