McCord v. Bright’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently October 1993 · most notably Summers v. State (1967), 159 Ind. App. 105 - Hunter v. Milhous (1973)
61 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 Cowee v. . Cornell · Shirk v. Neible · Barnett v. Harshbarger · French v. Cunningham · Rochester v. Levering
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But here the interest of a ward of the court, a favorite of chancery, is affected. She is incapable of choosing a theory. She is incapable of choosing any representative or waiving any right. She can do no act that would operate as an estoppel. Neither can her guardian do these things for her, to her detriment. Shamleffer v. Council Grove, etc., Mill Co. (1877), 18 Kan. 24; Whitehead v. Jones (1876), 56 Ala. 152 ; Driver v. Evans (1886), 47 Ark. 297 , 1 S. W. 518 ; Cochran v. McDowell (1853), 15 Ill. 10 ; Bearinger v. Pelton (1889), 78 Mich. 109 , 43 N. W. 1042 ; Wood v. Truax (1878), 39 Mich. 628 ; Clement v. Sigur (1877), 29 La. Ann. 798 ; Jones v. Massey (1877), 9 S. C. 376; 15 Am. and Eng. Ency. Law, 71, 72; Crain v. Parker (1849), 1 Ind. 374 ; Hough v. Doyle (1846), 8 Blackf. 300 ; Hough v. Canby (1846), 8 Blackf. 301 . It therefore becomes the duty of this court to search the record, . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the trust of the wife in the honor, good faith and love of her husband is generally so perfect that in all business affairs she depends upon him, and suffers herself to be controlled by his judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If an estate is limited to two jointly -- the one capable of taking, the other not -- he who is capable shall take the whole . . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Manglona v. Kaipat
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.