Carpenter v. Hazel’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1963
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 Hankins v. Layne · Ferguson v. Carr · Tucker v. Grace · Chisholm v. Crye · Reynolds v. Canal & Banking Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An amount paid to an attorney for conducting litigation for the benefit of an estate is a part of the expenses of administration, and payment of the amount is a distribution of a part of the assets of the estate. It is necessarily a part of the jurisdiction. of the probate court, which is exclusive over that subject, and no other court can invade that jurisdiction.””
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.