Cowan v. Bean’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1959
8 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 Will of Cole · In re the Will of Blakely · Will of Silverthorn · Gertsen v. Clementson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Its object and purpose seems to be to prevent an incompetent from disposing of his property so as to place it out of his control and beyond his recall during the pendency of the guardianship proceedings.” Page 82.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roether v. Roether
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.