Shaw v. Gregoire’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 17 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In Hite v. Thompson, 18 Mo. 461 , the case was very different from that which is now presented here. The plaintiff in the partition suit was the legally appointed guardian of the two minors, his wards, who were made defendants as tenants in common with him. Being himself the party plaintiff, he appeared in court in his capacity of guardian, and on his motion the court appointed a guardian ad litem for them. The court considered him as having authority as the general guardian to act fox them in the matter of the partition under the 53d section of the act, in a case where service of notice upon the guardian of a minor was all that the statute required. He was before the court acting as guardian for them as well as individually for himself; and the point decided was, that he could appear as their representative in his capacity of general guardian, without the service of notice either upon them or upon himself. The language of the opinion must be understood with reference to the question which was under consideration. "We cannot take it as any authority for the position that the court would be authorized to appoint a guardian fox a minor defendant who had neither been served with notice of any kind, nor was represented before the court by any lawfully appointed guardian whatever.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Scott v. Royston