Lee v. Tonsor’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Eaton v. St. Louis-S. F. Ry. Co. (1925), State v. District Court of Eighth Jud. Dist. (1925)
33 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 Roth v. Union Nat. Bank of Bartlesville · Beach v. Beach · Donnell v. Dansby · Weaver v. Sells · Clark v. Hall
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The guardian had no power to bind' the estate of his wards in any manner, or to create a lien thereon without specific authority from the county court so to do.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aubrey v. De Lozier
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.