Kerin v. Stangle’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably In re Michaela Lee R. (2000), Bender v. Bender (2009)
119 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 Baskin's Appeal from Probate · Prince v. Sheffield · Wendland v. Ridgefield Construction Services, Inc. · Dunham v. Dunham · Satti v. Rago
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consideration of all evidence presented on the appeal which would have been admissible in the probate court, the superior court should exercise the same power of judgment which the probate court possessed and decide the appeal as an original proposition unfettered by, and ignoring, the result reached in the probate court.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“In ruling on a probate appeal, the Superior Court exercises the power, not of a Constitutional Court of general or common law jurisdiction, but of a Probate Court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appeal from a Probate Court to the Superior Court is not an ordinary civil action.”
5 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.