Stokes' Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1970
22 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 Earp's Appeal · Estate of Smith · Moss's Appeal · Boyer's Appeal · Estate of Oliver
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If such a rule is desired in Pennsylvania, we think the change should be made by the legislature rather than by the courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Joy's Estate
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.