Isbell v. Flippen’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2006
8 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 Virginia Surety Co. v. Hilton
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that since the will . . . did not specifically authorize [the personal representative] to do so, the executor had no right to institute the present suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Campbell v. Harmon“failure to proceed promptly with the collection of assets due the decedent's estate is negligence, for which the personal representative may be liable”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Campbell v. Harmon“[o]ne of the primary obligations of the personal representative is to collect the assets of the estate,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Campbell v. Harmon
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.