Isle v. Cranby’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1980
1 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Van Buskirk v. Van Buskirk · Pyott v. Pyott · Speck v. Pullman Palace Car Co. · Ronan v. Bluhm · Brown v. Riggin
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law of the court of chancery undoubtedly is that in certain cases, where there is a person of unsound mind, not found so by inquisition, and therefore incapable of invoking the protection of the court, that protection may in proper cases, and if and so far as may be necessary and proper, be invoked on his behalf by any person as his next friend.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Minchener
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.