Ackerman v. Pfent’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 1941
2 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 Sprague v. Moore · Wilkinson v. Conaty · Johnson v. Estate of Johnson · Miller v. Hanley
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The petition for administration was regular in' form. There was within the jurisdiction of the probate court an estate to be administered. The determination of that court that defendant was a party entitled to letters of administration is not therefore open to collateral attack.” Ackerman v. Pfent, 145 Mich. 710, 712 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chandler v. White
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.