Peterson v. Laik’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1938
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 Jackson ex dem. Wallace v. Carpenter · Jackson ex dem. Brayton & Dunham v. Burchin · Youse v. Norcoms · Norcum v. Gaty
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. : “That a deed executed by one who has attained his majority,, conveying lands, which he had alienated during his infancy, is a disaffirmance of the deed of alienation made during his infancy, is the well-settled doctrine of this court. The acquiescence of the infant, after his reaching his full age, for a period short of that which would secure a title by the Statutes of Limitations, does not destroy or take away the right which the law for wise purposes has conferred on infants of disaffirming their deeds. Whether the infant, may not after attaining full age, within a shorter time, by his declarations, acts or conduct, restrain himself from a disaffirmance of his acts done during-infancy, is a question not presented by any thing contained in this record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parrish v. Treadway
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.