Morse v. Hinckley’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1973
1 federal appellate · 11 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 Guy v. Dü Uprey · Hunt v. Maldonado · Kendall v. Miller · Fish v. McCarthy · De La Montagnie v. Union Insurance
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think, too, irrespective of adjudicated cases, that the plain intent of the statute is to make void every alienation of the property of the ward, if made by the guardian without the order of the court; and that the rule in itself, is one of wholesome application to such sales, whether of the personal or real estate of the ward.””
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.