Davis v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 1977 · most notably Jasperson Ex Rel. Drew v. Jacobson (1947), Bengtson v. Setterberg (1949)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 Johnson v. Beazley · Propst v. Meadows · Bostwick v. Skinner · McLean v. Burbank · Gillett v. Needham
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Beyond question, these provisions of statute assume to authorize a probate court of this State to appoint a guardian 'for a nonresident minor, as respects any estate which the minor may have in the county where such probate court is established. With a valid authority to this extent our probate courts may properly be invested. Statutes conferring like authority have been in force here ever since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, and similar laws are found in Massachusetts, Ohio, Vermont, Michigan, Wisconsin, and other States. Jurisdiction to appoint a guardian exists as well when the infant has property in the State where the jurisdiction is sought to be exercised, as when he is domiciled therein. It rests upon a like basis in both cases, viz., the right and duty of a government to take care of those who are unable to take care of themselves as respects either person or property. McLoskey v. Reid, 4 Bradf. (N. Y.) 334; 1 Wharton on Conflict of Laws, §§ 259, 261, 265, 266, 268. And see Clarke v. Cordis, 4 Allen (Mass.), 466. With respect to real estate, it is to be added that the control and disposition of it must necessarily be subject to the lex rei sitse. “If a general guardian be appointed for a nonresident minor, and il be admitted that the appointment is, on account of its generality, too broad, there is no reason why it should not be held good to the extent to which it would have been lawful and competent to make it, to wit, to the extent of the minor’s e”
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.