In re Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 1969 · most notably Glanding v. Industrial Trust Co. (1945), Du Pont v. Du Pont (1951)
31 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 In re Salisbury · In re Harris · Penington ex rel. Thompson v. Thompson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except in so far as affected by subsequent statutory provisions, the Court of Chancery is by the above statute vested with jurisdiction and powers according to the course of Chancery practice in England.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A trustee may, in the name of the insane person, do whatever is necessary for the care, preservation and increase of his estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The governing principle in the management of the estate, applicable generally, is the lunatic's interest * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 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.