Grauman v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
November 1991
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re Jennings' Estate · Commercial Bank of San Luis Obispo v. Burke · Freese v. Pennie · In re Allard Guardianship · Allen v. Commonwealth
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.
“"A de facto guardian ... will be held subject to all duties and liabilities of a guardian.... his rights will be recognized so far as to entitle him to an equitable order for expenditures which were made for the ward, and which would have been allowed had the guardian been a legal one." Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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