Owen v. . Hines’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2016
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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A guardianship is a trust relation in which the guardian acts for the ward, whom the law regards as incapable of managing his own affairs. And in that relationship a guardian is a trustee and is governed by the same rules that govern other trustees. 25 Am.Jur., pp. 7 and 113. Moreover, the legal title to the property of an infant ward is in the ward, rather than in the guardian. The guardian, being merely the custodian and manager or conservator of the ward’s estate, has no beneficial title thereto. Thus when a deed or mortgage is taken by a guardian for his ward, the title is regarded as being in the ward. 25 Am.Jur. 69. Small v. Small, 74 N.C. 16 ; Wallace v. Wallace, 210 N.C. 656 , 188 S.E. 96 .” Owen v. Hines, 227 N.C. 236 , 41 S.E.2d 739, 742 .”
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.