Prince v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1957
4 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 People ex rel. Plugger v. Township Board of Overyssel
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The above reasoning applies with much greater force to the relation of guardian and ward than it does to principal and agent. It is no sufficient answer in this case to say that the guardian properly protected his ward’s interest. His action was in plain violation of the policy of the law.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““While the law does not presume bad faith, it does presume that there may be, and hence requires that the infant shall be represented by a discreet and disinterested person * * *.””
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.