Keenan v. Peevy’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2019
14 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 Hilburn v. First State Bank of Springdale · Dean v. Brown · Cranna v. Long · Collins v. Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Co. · Ellsworth, Administrator v. Cornes
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Code does not authorize the appointment of a guardian for a person who may be incapacitated physically as long as a person has mental faculties sufficient to understand the nature of his property and to protect it by agent even though he may be unable to do so in person.”
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.