Potter v. Alcorn’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2017
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 Anselmo v. Cox · Palmer v. Reeves · Appeal of Spencer · Union & New Haven Trust Co. v. Sherwood · Ferrie v. Trentini
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are strictly statutory tribunals.... As such, they have only such powers as are either expressly or impliedly conferred upon them by statute.... Ordinarily, therefore, whether a Probate Court has jurisdiction to enter a given order depends upon the interpretation of a statute.”
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.