206 Mo. App. 125 - Davis v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Ramsdell v. Union Trust Co. (1987), Moffett v. Commerce Trust Company (1955)
28 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 United States v. Mescall · State ex rel. Baker v. Bird · National Bank of Commerce v. Ripley · Winkler v. Lietman · Putney v. Fletcher
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a proceeding of this kind, it was not necessary to show that the estate was the owner of the property, but only to show, as the court found, that there was a real and substantial controversy as to the ownership of the note and that there was reasonable and probable cause to believe that the note belonged to the estate. A finding of this kind shows that the position of the executor and the estate is entirely antagonistic and that he ought not to be permitted to serve longer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. Barnard
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.