Duff v. Keaton’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1979 · most notably Tidal Oil Co. v. Flanagan (1924), Daniel McDougal v. Edmond McKay (1915)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 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 Kolachny v. Galbreath · Frank Oil Co. v. Belleview Gas & Oil Co. · Despard v. . Churchill · State v. Evans · Maharry v. Eatman
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statutes of this state are entirely lacking as to any specific provision for the procedure to be followed by the guardian in leasing the lands of his ward for agricultural or grazing or commercial purposes or for exploring for oil or gas.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The county court, on the application of a guardian or any person interested in the estate of any ward, after such notice to persons interested therein as -the judge shall direct, may authorize and require the guardian to invest the proceeds of sales, and any other of his ward’s money in his hands, in real estate, or in any other manner most to the interest of all concerned therein; and the county court may make such other orders and give such directions as are needful for' the management, investment and disposition of the estate and effects,- as circumstances require.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A guardian has no authority to' lease the lands of his ward, or enter into a license or contract covering the same, for oil and gas mining purposes, without the direction and approval of the probate court, for said section stipulates that the probate court may ‘make such other orders and give such directions as are needful for the management, investment and disposition of the estate and effects, as circumstances require. The rule obtaining at common law for the guardian to lease the lands of his ward without the approval of the court is thereby changed.””
2 later decisions 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.