Shofner, Administrator v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1994
9 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 James v. Gibson · West v. Waddill · Scott v. Penn · Miller v. Oil City Iron Works · Brown v. Hanauer
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislative intent seems to have been that all judgments should bear interest except those expressly excluded; and since claims against estates when converted into judgments are not excepted, the rule inclusio unius est exlusio alterius applies....”
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.