Black v. Wiedeman’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2014
9 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 In re Gilbert · Axton v. Vance · Baxter v. Hubbard · Robbins v. Jones' · Staggenborg v. Bailey
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he obligation of a guardian ad litem is ‘to stand in the infant’s place and determine what his rights are and what his interests and defense demand. Although not having the powers of a regular guardian, he fully represents the infant and is endowed with similar powers for the purposes of the litigation at hand.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“both a fiduciary and lawyer of the infant, and in a special sense the representative of the court to protect the minor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sjls v. Tls
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.