Roberts v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1944 · most notably State v. Evans (1927), Schrichte v. Stites' Estate (1891)
27 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 Reed v. Reed · Weight v. Wells · Heaton v. Knowlton
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.
““The pendency of a single claim may involve the solvency or insolvency of the estate, and arrest any further payment by the administrator of claims against the estate; hence the provision of the statute requiring claims to be filed at least thirty days before final settlement. THIS MEANS THIRTY DAYS BEFORE THE FILING OF ANY FINAL SETTLEMENT BY THE EXECUTOR OR ADMINISTRATOR, AFTER ONE YEAR HAS EXPIRED FROM THE TIME OF GIVING NOTICE OF HIS APPOINTMENT, AND NOT THIRTY DAYS BEFORE THE CONFIRMATION OF SUCH REPORT BY THE COURT. “An executor or administrator never could make a final settlement if, after making and filing such settlement, and pending its confirmation by the court, other claims might be filed. “An administrator who has collected all the assets, and paid them out on claims filed and allowed' against the estate, is compelled by law to make a final settlement after the lapse of one year from giving notice of his appointment. If other claims may then come in he may be left to suffer for having performed his duty according to the letter and spirit of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . . if such claim be filed after the expiration of one year from the giving of notice by the executor or administrator-of his appointment, it - shall be prosecuted solely at the costs of the claimant, and if not filed at least thirty days before final settlement of the estate, it shall be barred, . . (Our italics.)”
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.