Pitts v. Sheriff’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1942
18 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 Shepard v. Shepard · Small v. Field · Liptrot v. Holmes · Turner v. Shaw · McMillan v. Peacock
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ Where a trustee is appointed to hold the estate of a married woman, to protect it from the husband, and the marriage relation comes to an end, his estate at once becomes executed in the person who is to take it, the wife, if living, or, if she is dead, her heirs-at-law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stark v. Kirchgraber“When a deed has been executed and acknowledged, the possession of it by the grantee is presumptive evidence of its delivery.”
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.