Reason v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1943
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 Reid v. Quigley · Morford v. Dieffenbacker · Church v. Holcomb · Norman v. Olney · Gates v. Cornett (Mich. 11-28-1888)
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.
““It is next urged that the general guardian of an in competent person cannot maintain this suit, but that it can only be prosecuted by a guardian ad litem. 2 How. Stat. § 6316, confers upon such guardian the management of all his estate. Section 6323 provides that he may also bring suit for all debts, etc., and that ‘he shall appear for and represent his ward in all legal suits and proceedings, unless where another person is appointed for that purpose as guardian or next friend.’ We think the power thus conferred is broad enough to entitle a guardian to maintain a suit to recover property which his ward was incompetent to convey away” — citing Norton v. Ohrns, supra; and Carpenter v. Harris, supra.”
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.