Holmes v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
1 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 1991 · most notably 11 Cal. 3d 352 - Kruger v. Wells Fargo Bank (1974), Gray v. Whitmore (1971)
1 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 In re Estate of McManus · Keyes v. Cyrus · Sandburg v. Papineau · Barnum v. Boughton · Schillinger v. Boes
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We can see no reason why the insurance money coming to her directly as beneficiary should be exempt from execution, and not that coming to her indirectly, through the estate and the order setting it apart. In either case it is exempt from execution. In one case, the instrument of life insurance gives her the title, in the other the law gives it to her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Pillsbury“The widow takes the family allowance by order of the court. After it is paid to her, it cannot be seized on execution for her prior debts, and diverted from the support of the family.”
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.