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Guardian

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 461 U.S. 321 - Martinez Ex Rel. Morales v. Bynum · 1983Most cited · 395 citing opinions

the person who, under court order, is the guardian of the person of the child or the public or private agency with whom the child has been placed by a court." § 51.02(3).

How often courts cite the case defining “Guardian”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Guardian” — 395 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.