Lancaster v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1982
6 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 Evans v. Pearce · Hill v. Woodward · Garland v. Pamplin · Durrett v. Davis · Zirkle v. McCue
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t appears from the record that Mrs. Lancaster was fully informed of the pendency of this suit; that it was instituted at her earnest request .... It was her duty, under these circumstances, to make the fact of her full age known to the court, and ask that her guardian ad litem be removed, and that she be substituted in her own right .... [N]ot having acted for herself, she must be presumed to have been content that her guardian ad litem should continue to act for her. Mr. Lancaster, her husband, was also fully cognizant of these proceedings, both before his marriage and afterwards. He was consulted frequently by the commissioner about the case, and recommended the acceptance of the bid of the appellees, and the confirmation of the sale to them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.