Newell v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1994
9 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 3 E.H. Smith 539 - In Re the Appraisal Under the Taxable Transfer Act of the Estate of Davis · In Re the Transfer Tax Upon the Estate of Penfold · Blodgett v. Bridgeport City Trust Co. · In re Estate of Graves · Hooper v. Bradford
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of inheritance or succession becomes fixed and determined at the moment of the death of the owner, and although distribution occurs a considerable time thereafter, it relates back to the date of the death as the time when the right of the beneficiary became fixed.”
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.