Hewitt v. Sanborn’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
4 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Shannon v. Eno (1935), Reiley v. Healey (1936)
4 district · 23 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 Smith v. Ayer · Braman v. Babcock · Foote v. Brown · Merwin v. Morris · Jacobs v. Button
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A certificate of devise is not a muniment of title; it is merely a pointer to guide an examiner of the land records to an estate in probate through which title is derived, and the inclusion of [certain property] in a distribution would not strengthen the title thereto. As a convenience, lands specifically devised are often included in a distribution of all of the realty of an estate, but it is not an operative act of the Court of Probate; the title to the land flows from the will containing the devise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“property might be wanted for the payment of debts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.