Hayward v. Hayward’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1993 · most notably 157 Ind. App. 236 - Estate of Nye v. First National Bank (1973), Croop v. Walton (1927)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 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 Scott v. McNeal · Lamar v. Micou · Lamar v. Micou · Dupuy v. . Wurtz · Baker v. Baker, Eccles & Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As we have indicated, a proceeding for the appointment of a guardian for an insane person has its foundation in the theory that the public has an interest in the welfare of such unfortunates and in the preservation of their property. * * *”
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.