More v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1970 · most notably In Re Estate of Hite (1909), In Re Estate of Boyes (1907)
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 In re Estate of Sanderson · In re Estate of Swain · In re the Estate of Loshe · Hirschfeld v. Cross
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.
“But, whether exceptions are filed or not, the court should carefully examine every account presented for settlement and be satisfied that it is in every respect practically correct before entering an order settling it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Barnhart““On the day appointed, or any subsequent day to which the hearing may be postponed by the court, any person interested in the estate may appear and file his exceptions in writing to the account and contest the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Needham v. Needham“it is the duty of the court carefully to scrutinize the account, and to reject all claims of the executor illegal in themselves or unjust in fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Barnhart
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.