Wolfe v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably 102 Md. App. 212 - Reuter v. Reuter (1994), 39 Colo. App. 506 - Matter of Estate of Painter (1977)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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 · Riddleberger v. Goeller · Lusby v. Nethken · Gradman v. Brown · Johnson v. Johnson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In brief, the power of an orphans’ court to allow counsel fees is derived from statute. The allowance requires the exercise of discretion and judgment. An award will not be disturbed in the absence of proof of abuse of discretion . . . which generally means that the fee allowed is shown to be so unreasonably small or so unreasonably high as to amount to an abuse.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Clearly, [the personal representative] was entitled to act within reason to insulate himself from the possibility of personal liability. It may well be that his apprehensions spiralled far beyond the limits of any possible liability, but he can hardly be faulted for an excess of caution, if he acted in good faith, and we cannot say that he did not____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he commissions allowed a personal representative and the fee allowed his counsel should be considered together by the orphans’ court. Had he disclosed this in this petition, the revelation that total expenses of administering a $h3,000.00 estate would amount to $9,700.00 could well have been regarded as unreasonable or unfair.”
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.