Poffinbarger v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1987
16 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 Stauffer v. Salimonie Mining & Gas Co. · Manlove v. State · Dinwiddie v. Shipman · Beard v. Hosier · Stephens v. Stephens
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'voluntarily acquiesces in or recognizes the validity of such judgment, or otherwise takes a position which would be inconsistent on any theory other than the validity and binding force of the judgment.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Until the validity of a contested will is finally determined the court in which the estate is pending cannot proceed with the administration further than it is authorized to do by sections 2753, 2754, 2755, Burns 1914, providing for special administrations.””
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.