Becker v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2008
5 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the estate is solvent, the heir 1ms a beneficiary interest in the trust as distributee: but if the estate is insolvent, his interest is technical merely, and the executor becomes a trustee for the creditors of the est.ate, and in that capacity he is bound to protect their interests.””
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.