Allen v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2011
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Coker v. Moose · Jamar v. Brightwell · Greenland v. Gilliam · McReynolds v. Oklahoma Turnpike Authority · Berg v. Bryant Ex Rel. Bryant
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where an infant defendant is sued in her own name, and no guardian ad litem is appointed as required by 12 O. S.1961 § 228, and such fact is called to the court’s attention after all parties have presented their cases in chief, it is not error for the trial court to dismiss the case as to such infant defendant, without prejudice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lane v. Snitz““ * * * The appointment of a guardian ad litem for an infant defendant is not a mere formality, but has for its basis the protection of the rights of one under disability. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lane v. Snitz
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.