Brewer v. Perryman’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1975
23 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 Cook v. Ceas · Brewer v. Dodson · Fassitt v. Seip · Dunleavy v. Mayfield · Hill v. Reed
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““First. By order of the court. “Second. If the appointment was made solely because of the ward’s minority, by his obtaining majority. “Third. The guardianship over the person only of the ward, by the marriage of the ward.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kersey v. McDougal““After a ward has come to his majority, he may settle accounts with his guardian, and give him a release, which is valid if obtained fairly, and without undue influence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A guardian appointed by a court is not entitled to his discharge until one year after his ward’s majority.””
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.