Riddleberger v. Goeller’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Wolfe v. Turner (1973), Webster v. Larmore (1973)
2 district · 26 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 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee v. Eisenberg · Williams v. Robinson · Dalrymple v. Gamble · State ex rel. Gable v. Coale · Gradman v. Brown
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For legal services rendered by an attorney at law to an estate or to an executor or administrator of an estate, the orphans’ court may on his own petition allow such attorney such sums as it may deem reasonable as an expense in the administration account of the executor . . . during whose encumbancy such services were rendered.” (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Rolfe“confuses the difference between the fee which may be allowable from an estate with the total compensation which may well be due counsel for his services rendered, since the allowance of a fee in an estate in no way precludes counsel from charging a fee to the personal representative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the testamentary law, such property that passes, upon death to the personal representative of the decedent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.