Ex Parte Fortune’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2025
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 Crosbie v. Brewer · Ex Parte Sloan. Stanley v. Vinson
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.
““Upon the trial of a habeas corpus proceeding instituted by a guardian to obtain the custody of his ward, the issuance of letters, of guardianship is not conclusive on the question of the right of a guardian to the custody of his ward; but it is the duty of the court in such a proceeding to determine the question of whether or not it will grant the guardian a writ of habeas corpus according to the best interests and the welfare of the minor. The controlling consideration, in determining a habeas corpus proceeding involving the custody of a minor, is the question of what will best promote the ward’s welfare.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.