Little v. Gavin’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1992
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Van Antwerp v. Van Antwerp · Little v. Sugg · Ex Parte Kelly · Henry v. Ide · Dent v. Foy
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Another principle equally as well understood is, that the administration and settlement of a decedent’s estate, is a single and continuous proceeding, and when removed into equity for one purpose, the court must proceed to a final and complete settlement of all matters involved, including those pending and unfinished at the time of its removal from the probate court; for there can be no splitting up of an administration, any more than of any other cause of action. “It is one proceeding throughout, in a sense, and the court having paramount jurisdiction, must proceed to a final and complete settlement.” ’ ” Little v. Gavin, 244 Ala. 156, 160 , 12 So.2d 549, 552 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Such special administrator must find his authority in the law which governs his situation and in the orders of the probate court. He is the agent or officer of the probate court. [Citation omitted.] His authority as defined by section [43-2-47], Code, is to collect and receive goods, chattels, and debts due the estate, secure and preserve them at such expense as may be deemed reasonable, by the probate court. He has no authority to pay debts nor receive the presentation of claims. [Citation omitted.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Snider““(a) The judge of probate may, in any contest respecting the validity of a will, or for the purpose of collecting the goods of a deceased, or in any other case in which it is necessary, appoint a special administrator, authorizing the collection and preservation by him of the goods of the deceased until letters testamentary or of administration have been duly issued.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Snider
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.