Henry v. Melton’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1934
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 Title Guaranty & Surety Co. v. Slinker · Greer v. McNeal · Southern Surety Co. v. Burney
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Guardian’s Bond — Sureties—Final Set tlement — Oonclusiveness. — Sureties on a guardian’s bond are, in the absence of fraud, concluded by the decree of the county court, duly entered on a hearing on an accounting, or final settlement, as to the amount of the principal’s liability, although the sureties are not parties to the accounting.’ Title Guaranty & Surety Co. v. Slinker, 35 Okla. 128 , 128 Pac. 696 ; Southern Surety Co. v. Burney et al., 34 Okla. 552 , 126 Pac. 748 , 43 L. R. A. (N. S.) 308; Greer et al. v. MeNeal et al., 11 Okla. 519 , 69 Pac. 891 .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The money in his possession, as shown by his final report, is the property of his ward, as determined by the county court, and this is binding, so far as this case is concerned.””
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.