Thomas v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"* * * we think, from its peculiar wording, the Legislature intended that one person should be guardian of the person and another of the estate of the minor; and if one person is guardian of both, he, in such cases as the one under consideration, derives one by appointment of the father, (guardian of the person) the other by appointment of the court (guardian of the property)."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Comerford v. Cherry

2. “such appointment (by deed or will) shall give the guardian the same powers over the child as is and shall be directed by law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Comerford v. Cherry