Dodd v. . Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 1969 · most notably Logan v. Thomason (1947), McMaster v. Gould (1925)
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Austin v. . Munro · Ferrin v. . Myrick · O'Brien v. . Jackson · Hartnett v. . Wandell · Brown v. Eggleston
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. There can be no executor where there is no will. 2. Unless a will is admitted to probate there can be no letters testamentary. 3. Until letters testamentary or of administration are issued upon the estate of a decedent there is no legal representative of the estate. 4. Although a person is nominated as executor in a paper purporting to be»a will, he is under no legal obligation to accept.””
2 later decisions 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.