53 Ark. App. 161 - Hooks v. Pratte’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2020
14 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 Moore v. State · Kulbeth v. Purdom · Markham v. Buck · In Re Matter of Guardianship of Markham · Knight v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the circumstances that had led to the letters of guardianship being issued had changed to the extent that it would be in [J.H.]'s best interest to terminate the guardianship and reunite [him] with his mother.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graham v. Matheny“a guardianship may be terminated if, for any reason, the guardianship is no longer necessary or for the best interest of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graham v. Matheny“should not be interpreted as providing the only guideline a probate court can consider in terminating a guardianship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graham v. Matheny
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.