Bennett v. Arrowsmith’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 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 In re the Estate of Osborn · McCullough v. Finley · Hunt v. Rabitoay
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The result accomplished by partition has been described as follows: “ ‘Each of the allottees is deemed to hold the same title which he held before the partition, the undivided interest which he held in the whole tract being by the partition severed from the interests of his cotenants and concentrated in the parcel set apart to him.’ 30 Cyc. 166.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Consequently partition of land belonging to a person under guardianship is essentially management of his estate, within the meaning of the statute already quoted.” (p. 145.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Hall““Every probate court . . . may make an order ... to let, sell or mortgage any part of such estate, . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Hall
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.