Frost v. Redford’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1936
6 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 Rannells v. Gerner · Stumph v. Guardianship of Pfeiffer · Moody v. Bibb · State ex rel. Lancaster v. Jones · Heard v. Sack
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all civilized countries care of the insane has been an object of much solicitude. The pity and sympathy which finds a response in the breast of all from the first civilization has manifested itself in the promulgation of rules of law or equity devised for the protection and care of these most unfortunate of human beings. ‘It seems to be granted at this day that the King as parens patrias hath the protection of all his subjects, and that in a more peculiar manner he is to take care of those who by reason of their inability and want of understanding are incapable of taking care of themselves.’ [Idiots and Lunatics, Bacon’s Abridgements.] The same eminent author also said that, ‘The first paramount rule in lunacy is to provide for the personal ease and comfort of the lunatic.’ From the inability of the King to give attention to these unfor tunates it was deputed to the chancellor, who in practice referred the case to a master to approve of a proper person to act as a committee of the person and estate of the insane person.””
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.