Northrup v. Browne’s Empirical Analysis
204 F. 224 · 1913
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1968
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. · Byers v. McAuley · Payne v. Hook · Johnston v. Standard Mining Co. · Farrell v. O'Brien
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus it clearly appears that the federal court may in the first instance adjudicate a claim against the estate of a deceased person in an action brought by the creditors against the administrator or executor, the requisite amount in controversy and diversity of citizenship existing. The federal court may also in a proper case determine the right of a party as heir, legatee, or distributee; but the court has no jurisdiction to determine those matters which are purely matters of administration * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lightfoot v. Hartman
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.