In re Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1970
21 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 Van Steenwyck v. Washburn · Harding's Admr. v. Harding's Exr. · Penhallow v. Kimball · Andrews v. Bassett
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * But independent of these considerations [i. e., the general equitable powers of the Chancery Court] broad powers are given by statute to the court to care for insane persons and their property. The trustee appointed by it to manage the property of the lunatic is expressly empowered by the statute to do `whatever is necessary for the care, preservation and increase of his estate'."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re duPont · In Re duPont
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.