Adams v. Petrain’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1968
2 district · 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The surviving or remaining executor or administrator, or the new administrator, as the ease may be, is entitled to the exclusive administration of the estate, and for that purpose may maintain any necessary and proper action, suit, or proceeding on account thereof, against the executor or administrator ceasing to act, or against his sureties or representatives. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The county court has the exclusive jurisdiction, in the first instance, pertaining to a court of probate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Decker v. Decker
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.