Judson v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1974
14 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 In Re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts McAlpine · In Re the Accounting Slocum · Cruce v. Cruce · White v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Hollister v. Barkley
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that the same persons who were named as executors -were also named as trustees did not merge the trusteeship in the executorship. They are separate and distinct ofiices, the one might be accepted and the other declined; or the duties of one might remain to be performed after the other had been fully executed.”
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.