Amos v. Toolen’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably 338 So. 2d 1243 - Duncan v. Johnson (1976), Wood v. Amos (1938)
33 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 Wilks v. Wilks · Rosenau v. Powell · Abney v. Abney · Peters v. Rhodes · McDowell v. Herren
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mrs. Amos is not only a life tenant of the property involved in this proceedings, but is one of the two surviving executors. By the terms of the will of the decedent these executors are given the right to sell any and all the real property of the decedent, not specifically devised, but only, as heretofore pointed out, for the limited purpose of reinvestment. “ ‘The executor or administrator is not only the personal representative of decedent, but is also to a very great extent the representative of the creditors, and of the legatees or distributees. He occupies a position of trust with respect to those who are interested in the estate, and is a trustee in the broadest sense, although not in the general acceptation of the term.’ 23 Corpus Juris, § 387, pp. 1170, 1171.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Amos
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.