Alexander v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 1952
4 federal appellate · 18 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 McCormick v. Paddock · Atkins v. Atkins · Miller v. Finn
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.
““In such decree the court shall name the persons, and the proportions or parts, to which each shall be entitled, and such persons shall have the right to demand and recover their respective shares from the executor or administrator, or any person having the same.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘■If the widow has a life-estate in the lands mentioned, the plaintiffs cannot maintain an action of partition against her. She is entitled to the full possession and absolute control during her life of said estate, provided she does not commit waste thereon, and the plaintiffs would have no right to disturb her possession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Logue v. Ferris
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.