19 Kan. App. 2d 384 - Bolton v. Souter’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2021
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Todd v. Kelly · Guardianship of the Person & Estate of Smith v. Merchants Mutual Bonding Co. · In Re Conservatorship of Marcotte · 10 Kan. App. 2d 103 - In Re the Estate of Engels · State v. Rios
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'anyone appointed by, or under the control of, or accountable to the probate court, and either acting in a fiduciary capacity for another, or charged with duties in relation to any property, interest, trust, or estate for the benefit of another.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Bolton was not a conservatee at the time he transferred the property to Souter, although the appointment had been completed before Souter finished the expenditure of Bolton's money.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“contain[ed] provisions applicable to all estates, with most of the sections referring specifically to fiduciaries.”
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.