Strunk Ex Rel. Burton v. Strunk’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably In Re Quinlan (1976), Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz (1977)
3 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Casebier v. Casebier · Arms' Committee v. Arms · Polivick v. Polivick · Dalton's Committee v. Dalton · Thomasson v. Thomasson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where legal disability of the individual is shown, the jurisdiction of the court is plenary and potent to afford whatever relief may be necessary to protect his interests and preserve his estates. . . . While this is indeed a special exercise of equity jurisdiction, it is beyond question that by virtue thereof the court may pass upon purely personal rights." Id. at 147 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“". . . Lord Chancellor permitted the allowance of an annuity out of the income of the estate of [a] lunatic earl as a retiring pension to the latter's aged personal servant" because the court was "`satisfied that the Earl of Carysfort would have approved if he had been capable of acting himself.'" Id. at 148 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As part of the inherent power of equity, a court of equity has full and complete jurisdiction over the persons of those who labor under any legal disability and also over their property .... The court’s action is not limited by any narrow bounds but is empowered to stretch forth its arm in whatever direction its aid may be needed. . . . While this is indeed a special exercise of equity jurisdiction, it is beyond question that by virtue thereof the court may pass upon purely personal rights.”
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.