Stratton v. McCandless’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2010
12 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 State ex rel. Robinson v. Smith
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In cases of this kind, where the administrator is still acting and the estate is not settled, and the probate court has complete and ample jurisdiction over the administrator and over the estate, actions in other jurisdictions against the administrator and his sureties on the administrator’s bond should not be encouraged.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Now the estate may have been hopelessly insolvent, and may still be insolvent. It may require every article or piece of property, every available dollar, everything belonging to the estate, to pay the claims of the first class; . . .” (Stratton v. McCandless, 27 Kan. 296, 301 .) “The statute gives funeral expenses priority over all other demands against the estate of the decedent.” (Nelson v. Schoonover, 89 Kan. 388, 394 , 131 Pac. 147 .)”
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.