Harrison v. Prentice’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2011
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Vincent v. Palmer · Craig v. Leslie · Ford v. Ford · Mellen v. . Mellen · Sands v. Church of the Ascension & Prince of Peace
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a testator manifests a clear intention that his real estate shall be sold and the proceeds thereof distributed, the court considers the real estate converted into money at the time of the testator’s death, unless there is some provision in the will which postpones the time of conversion____ The basis for the doctrine of equitable conversion ... is the intention of the party creating a right in the property, and the maxim “Equity regards that as done which ought to be done.” (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coe v. Hays
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.