Nichols v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 1984
21 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 In Re Estate of Wah-Kon-Tah-He-Ump-Ah · Knight v. Hamakar
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Suppose A is an administratrix, B claims the entire estate as the sole heir of decedent, and C claims the entire estate as the sole heir of decedent. A contest as to the heirship is filed in the administration proceedings. It is the duty of A to preserve the estate during the pendency of the contest. A doubtless would not allow attorneys' fees paid to B or C as a charge against the estate. If she allowed it for one, it should be allowed for the other, but neither should be allowed, because that is a contest between individuals or rival claimants, and is a personal matter between them and their attorneys.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Those services performed for one of the rival claimants for the estate should not be allowed against the estate. That service is a personal obligation of the claimant for whom the service was rendered." [emphasis added]”
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.