Kenan v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2017
12 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 Clark v. Knox · Gould v. Hays · Noble v. Jackson · Newberry's Administrator v. Newberry's Distributees · Woodruff v. Snedecor
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court in making the allowance is to look to the loss of time, risk and responsibility, which are demanded .... and which is actually incurred, and to allow ... such a reasonable remuneration as a prudent and just man would, in view of the circumstances, consider a fair compensation, without, however, being governed by business charges usually made for like services.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““This rule, it seems to us, is a wise and conservative one, a disregard of which would tend to tempt the administrator or executor into misconduct in the administration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCraw v. Cooper
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.