Patrick's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1963
6 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 Biddle v. Ahl · Myers' Appeal · Frost v. Denman
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We agree with the learned orphans’ court that the accountant is not chargeable with the moneys received and held by his cotrustees. In clear and unmistakable terms the will limits the liability of each trustee to that part of the trust fund which he actually receives.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foulke's Estate
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.