Collett v. Hilton’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2007
7 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 Clolinger v. Callahan · Massie v. Paul · Hallenbeck v. Getz · Cabell, Basye & Co. v. Patterson · Payne v. Auxier
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A representative, legatee, distributee or creditor of a deceased person may bring an action in equity for the settlement of his estate [provided that no such suit shall be brought by any of the parties named except the personal representative until the expiration of six months after the qualification of such representative.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““That no suit of any kind, including a suit to settle tbe estate, can be brought against an executor or administrator within six months after his qualification, and that any action so brought ‘shall be dismissed with costs.’ ””
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.