Robeno v. Marlatt’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1974
8 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 Willard's Estate · Coates v. Hughes · Walker v. Hall · Edwards's Appeal · Hollingsworth's Appeal
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that, as to after-born children, a will is not absolutely void, but is void only in so far as the shades of the children are affected by it: Coates v. Hughes, 3 Burn. 498. The appointment of a testamentary guardian, and a power of sale for the payment of debts, have been upheld against such children, because they are not in conflict with either the letter or spirit of the act of 1833 [i. e., to which section 21 of the Wills Act is the successor], above quoted. ... A power of sale for the payment of debts, like the appointment of an executor, relates to the administration of the estate, payment of debts, etc. The claims of creditors are of course superior to the rights of heirs or distributees. The latter take nothing until the decedent’s debts are paid. Hence, a power of sale for the payment of debts, and the execution thereof, cannot injuriously affect the right of afterborn children ‘to such purparts, shares, and dividends of the estate real and personal,’ of their deceased parent, ‘as if he had actually died without any will.’ ””
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.