Prince v. Barrow’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2000
3 district · 13 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 Colton v. Colton · Stanley v. Colt · Dexter v. Evans · Smith v. Wildman · Tate v. Chandler
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Can the widow and other heirs at law of the testator set aside his will, and by agreement settle his estate among themselves? Undoubtedly they can, if they are the only parties who have any legal or equitable interest therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Drennen v. Heard
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.