Kirkpatrick v. Burgess’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 12 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The marriage of a minor ward terminates the guardianship; and the guardian of an insane or other person may be discharged by the judge of the county court when it appears to him on the application of the ward or otherwise, that the guardianship is no longer necessary.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Coats v. Benton

2. ““Under the statutes of. the state, as we have noted above, the mere marriage of the minor, except as to allotted lands, qualifies him to sell his land: hence the necessity of any supervision on the part of the probate court or of any guardian does not exist.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barlow v. Soldofsky