Ray v. Elson’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1963
5 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 Paulina Whiting v. The Bank of the United States · Butt v. Maddox · Folsom v. Mid-Continent Life Ins. Co. · Glidden Admx. v. Gutelius · Arnold v. President, Managers & Co. of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In an action to foreclose a real estate mortgage where one of the judgment debtors died after the entry of final judgment and decree of foreclosure, a valid order of sale may be issued without making the heirs and representatives of said deceased defendant parties to said judgment as provided by Section 589, O.S. 1931, 12 Okl.St. Ann. § 1077."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““When any judgment has been rendered for or against the testator or intestate in his life-time, no execution shall issue thereon after his death, except: “1. In case of the death of -the judgment creditor, upon the application of his executor or administrator or successor in interests. “2. In case of the death of the judgment debtor, if the judgment be for the recovery of real or personal property, or the enforcement of a lien thereon. • “A judgment against the decedent for the recovery of money, must be-presented to the executor or administrator, like any other claim. If the execution is actually levied upon any property of the decedent before his death,, the same may bé sold for the satisfaction thereof, and the officer making the sale must account to the executor or administrator for any surplus in his hands.”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tucker v. Gautier
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.