Claypool v. Jaqua’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1953 · most notably Jeffersonville Water Supply Co. v. Riter (1897), Buffington v. Buffington (1898)
31 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 McAnnulty v. McAnnulty · Langley v. Mayhew · Shipman v. Keys · Hurley v. McIver · Smith v. Denman
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The widow’s statutory claim to $500 is not an interest in the estate of the decedent, but is a preferred claim payable out of the personal estate, if sufficient for the purpose. If not, then the lands of the decedent shall be sold to pay it. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Wilson
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.