Fleming v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The matter in issue on the trial was the validity of the sale; and it was immaterial and irrelevant whether the appellant was sane or insane, when his father was appointed his guardian, or when the order of sale was granted, or when the sale was made, confirmed, etc., he being all the while, an infant. The probate court appoints a guardian for an infant, solely because of the infancy, and no inquiry is made as to sanity. The law regards the infant, whether sane or insane, as incapable of acting for itself, and provides for it to be placed under a guardianship, which continues until it is of age, and then this guardianship ceases. Gould’s Digest, chap. 83, p. 570. The law also provides for the appointment of guardians for adult persons, when found, upon proper inquest, to be insane, etc., Gould’s Digest, chap. 89, p. 605. The two kinds of guardianship are as distinct as the two statutes which provide for them. The latter begins where the former ends, after the infant is of age.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Branch v. Veterans' Administration