Colt v. Colt’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 566 · 1884
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1956 · most notably McArthur v. Scott (1885), Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans Railroad v. Pullman Southern Car Co. (1891)
5 federal appellate · 12 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 Thompson v. Whitman · Christmas v. Russell · Western R.R. Co. v. . Nolan · Pearce v. Olney · Dunning v. . Ocean National Bank
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As long as personal property is held by executors as part of the estate of the testator, for the payment of debts or legacies, or as a residuum to be distributed, they hold it by virtue of their office, and are accountable for it as executors. That liability only ceases when it has been taken out of the estate of the testator, and appropriated to and made the property of the cestui que trust.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jordan v. Taylor“amongst the several persons and parties to whom I have hereinbefore given legacies of stock, in the ratio and proportion in which said legacies of stock are hereinbefore given * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to his issue lawfully begotten, as an absolute estate,”
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.