Dial v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1990
5 federal appellate · 12 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 The Texas Company v. Davis · Roy v. Whitaker · Community of Priests of St. Basil v. Byrne · Caruthers v. Leonard · Robinson v. Jacobs
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the general rule is that a guardian is authorized to re-present the ward in litigation, and that a judgment entered for or against the ward in an action where the guardian as such is a party is valid, the rule does not apply where the guardian has an interest which is adverse to that of the ward.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Uehlinger v. State
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.