Whiting v. Shipley’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 1998
2 district · 19 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 Stanley v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Preston v. Poe · Dunnock v. Dunnock · Sudler v. Sudler · Withers v. Denmead
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever any person shall die intestate, leaving in this State personal estate, letters of administration may forthwith be granted by the orphans’ court of the county wherein was the party’s mansion house or residence; or in case he had no mansion or residence within the State, letters shall be granted in the county where the party died * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weingart v. Ward
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.