Lee v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably In Matter of Badger (1920), Pearce v. Pearce (1917)
1 federal appellate · 47 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 Loop v. . Litchfield · Striplin v. Ware · Alston v. Alston · M'Cord v. Ochiltree · Grattan v. Grattan
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The final settlement is strictly a judicial proceeding, having all the elements of a suit at law or in equity; and the decree rendered has the force, finality, and dignity of a judgment at law, or a decree in equity. It ascertains and settles conclusively the extent of the liability of the guardian and the rights of the ward."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a final ascertainment of the guardian's liability, the rendition of a final decree, conclusive on him and his sureties, and on which execution could issue against them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.