Collins v. Ruffner’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably In Re: Estate of Martha M. Tanner (2009), Moore v. Stephens (1956)
21 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 Commerce Union Bank v. Gillespie · 27 Tenn. App. 7 - Cooper's Estate v. Keathley · Langford v. Fly · Williams v. Conrad · Parker v. Savage & Hogan
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ajll-claims and demands not filed with the clerk, as required by this Act or in which suit shall not have been brought or revived before the end of one (1) year from the date of the notice to creditors ... shall be forever barred from assertion against the personal representative and from payment out of assets while the same are in his hands, and the personal representative may, without liability for the payment, distribute the assets of the estate and close the administration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In Langford v. Fly, 26 Tenn. 585 , 586, the Court said: ‘A party who has a right of action for a tort, cannot be deemed a “creditor” until he obtains a judgment. The wrong-doer is in no sense a debtor by reason of the wrong, until the judgment of a court shall fix upon him a pecuniary burden for the redress of the wrong.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Duplicate copies of the first pleading filed in original actions against a personal representative shall be filed with the clerk of the court where the administration originated, to be noted by him in the record of claims as are other claims filed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.