Fitch v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1939
16 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 Stuart v. Allen · Sibley v. . Waffle
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to render the sale effectual to confer a valid title, the probate court must have acquired jurisdiction of the case, by the presentation of a proper petition by the guardian.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leflore v. Steen
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.