6 Ark. App. 10 - Monroe v. Dallas’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2010
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 Tucker v. Turner · Keneipp v. Phillips · Knight v. Deavers · McCartney v. Merchants and Planters Bank · Pope v. Pope
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.
“[t]he parents of an unmarried minor, or either of them, if qualified and in the opinion of the court suitable, shall be preferred over all others for appointment as guardian of the person. Subject to this rule, the court shall appoint as guardian of an incompetent the one most suitable to serve, having due regard to: (a) any request contained in a will or other unitten instrument executed by the parent for the appointment of a person as guardian of his minor child; ... (d) the relationship by blood or marriage to the person for whom the guardianship is sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fletcher v. Scorza“relationship by blood or marriage to the person for whom guardianship is sought.”
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.