Stone v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1967
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Russell v. State · State v. Beardsley · Townsend v. Beavers · Walsh v. Packard · Kolars v. Brown
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The administrator represents the decedent. He is primarily a trustee of decedent, for the purpose of handling his estate and paying his debts. Decedent’s creditors have the first claim against the estate, and it is the paramount duty of the administrator to protect their interests. He is more the representative of the creditors than of the heirs. He is trustee for the heirs in the limited and secondary sense of making distribution after payment of debts and expenses. No privity of trusteeship exists between him and creditors of heirs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.