Langhirt v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2006
5 federal appellate · 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 Fisher v. Boyce · Reichard v. Izer · Decker v. Fahrenholtz · Newell v. Dundalk Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One, who accepts the position of executor (in which it is his duty to defend the will against caveat * *) and holds that position for 15 months, should not be permitted, on the very day he is relieved of the duties of the office, to attack the will without alleging in his petition facts which explain the apparent inconsistency, and the proof of these facts should be preliminary to the granting of issues bearing on the validity of the will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McNamara v. Miller
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.