Kirk v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Brown v. Brown (1951), 2013 Ark. App. 96 - Spencer v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (2013)
29 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 Verser v. Ford · Coulter v. Sypert · Washaw v. Gimble · Clark v. White
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Minors are the wards of chancery courts, and it is the duty of such courts to make any orders that would properly safeguard their rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swindle v. Bradley
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.