Ruppenthal v. Maag’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1995
12 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 Lindholm v. Nelson · Gaston v. Collins · State ex rel. Mitchell v. Stevens · State ex rel. McBride v. Board of Commissioners · State ex rel. Wells v. Marston
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.
““G.S. 1939 Supp., 60-4001 to 60-4026, inclusive, cover a distinct field which was not dealt with by any previous legislature, while section 59-1508 covers a field to which the very first legislature in this state gave attention and which has been the subject of legislation as a distinct subject from time to time. The end sought which was to enable the person entitled to an unclaimed distributee’s share to appear and prove that he was entitled to that share is provided for in section 59-1508 and has been ever since 1917. There was no remedy for that particular situation which would have caused the legislature to enact 60-4001 to 60-4026. The purpose of that statute [the Estates of Absentees Act] was undoubtedly to provide a procedure in cases where money, or other personal property, or real estate, were being wasted or lost through lack of someone to take care of it. Such is not the case here. This money is in good hands and is as safely kept awaiting the appearance of the person entitled to it as though it were in the hands of a conservator. The two statutes deal with separate things altogether. We have therefore concluded that 60-4001 to 60-4026, inclusive, does not apply to cases such as the one we have here where a distributee’s share of an estate was paid to the county treasurer because the person who was entitled to it could not be found.” (Emphasis added.) 153 Kan. at 595-96 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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