Reed v. Shilcutt’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
April 1960
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Moore v. Mitchell · Sylvania Industrial Corp. v. Lilienfeld's Estate · Rybolt v. Jarrett · Hodges v. Kimball · Moore v. Smith
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person not a resident of this State * * * shall be appointed or allowed to qualify or act as personal representative * * * of any decedent * * * unless there be also appointed to serve with the nonresident personal representative * * * a person resident in this State * * (Italics supplied to indicate the amendment of 1950.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodgers v. Irvine
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.