Pahlman v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1904
5 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Had he associated any person not an executor with them, in the power to sell, there could have been no question of his intention that'they should act as trustees, and not as executors. It would have indicated that the testator relied upon their judgment and discretion when acting together,” etc.”
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.