Brod v. Brod’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1979
7 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 Headman v. Rose · Rivers v. Alsup · American Building & Loan Ass'n v. Memphis Furniture Manufacturing Co. · Estate of Graham · In re Stewart's Estate
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.
““(3) To one or more of the persons entitled to a distributive share of the estate or his or her nominee, as the court may in its discretion determine, if application for letters be made within forty days after the death of the decedent, in case there is a surviving spouse, and if no surviving spouse, within thirty days after the death of the decedent. “(4) To any other qualified person.””
1 later decision 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.