Soper v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 1956
22 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 Elliott v. Fowler · Carpenter v. Moorelock · Wyatt's Trustee v. Grider · Ford v. May · Luscher v. Julian's Administrator
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To protect him against the possibility of spoliation or waste, only the chancellor of a court of proper jurisdiction may dispose of an infant’s land through the agencies of a court. That power is not inherent. It is derived from the statutes, and its exercise is defined and limited by specific directions, which must be strictly observed. In a word, the court can dispose of an infant’s land only in strict accordance with the terms of the statutory laws. They are its sole and only power and single source of jurisdiction. These are fundamental and inexorable principles, expounded and maintained from the beginning of our jurisprudence. Vowles’ Heirs v. Buckman, 36 Ky. [6 Dana] 466; Elliott v. Fowler, 112 Ky. 376 , 65 S. W. 849, 855 , 23 Ky. Law Rep. 1676 ; Wyatt’s Trustee v. Grider, 158 Ky. 440 , 165 S. W. 420 ; Eversole v. Roberts, 239 Ky. 532 , 39 S. W. [2d] 986.””
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.