Ahlman v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2014
9 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 First Commerce Realty Investors v. Peninsular Title Ins. Co. · Comerford v. Cherry · 344 So. 2d 270 - In Re the Matter of Castro · 259 So. 2d 762 - Davidson v. Parker · 396 So. 2d 1217 - Thorpe v. Larsen
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The entire basis of such a proceeding, as created by Sec. 744.341, is the capacity of the ward, who is therefore statutorily required to be "mentally competent," voluntarily to petition for its institution, to designate the guardian, and it necessarily follows, to secure the discontinuance of the guardianship at his request.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While the next of kin are given first consideration by section 744.312(2)(a), the statute does not mandatorily require that such an appointment be made. To the contrary, the statute specifically provides that `(t)he court may appoint any person who is qualified ... whether related to the ward or not.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Considerations in appointment of guardian,”
1 later decision 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.