160 Pa. Super. 305 - Refior Case’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1987
3 federal appellate · 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 Estate of Smith · Wallace's Estate · Dickerson's Appeal · Denner v. Beyer · 139 Pa. Super. 212 - Ryman's Case
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are not unduly troubled by the question of semantics. The purpose of the Incompetents’ Estates Act is preventative [sic] and protective in nature. Card’s Appeal, 177 Pa.Super. 502 , 110 A.2d 856 [1955]. The following language of President Judge Baldridge in Refior’s Case, 160 Pa.Super. 305 , 50 A.2d 523, 527 [1947], is particularly appropriate: “Whether an alleged incompetent is found to be mentally ‘confused,’ ‘defective,’ ‘feeble,’ or ‘weak’ is not vitally important. If, as here, it appears that one’s mind is so affected that as a consequence thereof he is liable to dissipate or lose his property and become the victim of designing persons, the court, if other requirements are met, may appoint [or refuse to remove] a guardian”.”
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.