Delevan v. Thom’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1984
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Colden v. Alexander · Griggs v. Brewster · Lauraine v. Ashe · Lauraine v. Ashe · In Re the Will of Hills
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have examined the guardianship statutes, and it is our conclusion that the right of election . . . did not constitute such a property right as formed a part of the estate committed to the care of the guardian of her estate, or such a right as belonged to the guardian of her person. We hold, as a consequence, that the guardian could not exercise the right of election.” Delevan v. Thom, 244 S.W.2d at 555-56 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weatherly v. Byrd
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.