Fallon v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 1988 · most notably Wadleigh v. Phelps (1906), Verdier v. Roach (1892)
46 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Nagle v. Macy · Ellissen v. Halleck · Cowell v. Buckelew
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever signification then may be attached to the term ‘claims,’ standing by itself, it is evident that in the probate act it only has reference to snch debts or demands against the decedent as might have been enforced against him in his lifetime by personal actions for the recovery of money, and upon which only a money judgment could have been rendered.” Fallon v. Butler, 21 Cal. 24 ( 81 Am. Dec. 140 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ Sec. 1494. Every claim presented to the administrator must be supported by the affidavit of the claimant * * * that the amount is justly due, that no payments have been made thereon, and that there are no offsets.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re McCAUSLAND
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.