Fletcher v. Holcomb’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2013
15 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 Bruner v. Martin · Musick v. Beebe · Klemp v. Winter · Orozem v. McNeill · Jenkins v. Jenkins
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An order of the probate court approving a final settlement of the guardian of an insane person and releasing and discharging the guardian is a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction and is not subject to collateral attack.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gaston v. Collins
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.