Bugbee v. Van Cleve’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1981
7 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 Mitchell v. Overman · In re Merrill · In re estate of Roebling · Van Doren v. Robinson · Clark v. Van Cleef
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the executor is a man of substance, * * * and the state chooses to pursue him for the tax for which he is personally liable, he cannot escape responsibility or stall the proceedings by asserting that others are liable if the state chose to pursue them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“provided of course that he had assets sufficient to pay and discharge the tax;”
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.