Compton v. McMahan’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1962
13 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 Craig v. Leslie · Moncrief v. . Ross · Conklin v. Egerton's Administrator · Judson v. Gibbons · Smith v. McConnell
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now, whenever they are named for that purpose, they are trustees as well as executors, and it is in the character of trustees that they make the sale; as, indeed, even though they should refuse to qualify as executors, they might nevertheless execute the power as trustees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carr v. Barr
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.