People v. Pasfield’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1996 · most notably Frick v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1925), Harrison v. Northern Trust Co. (1943)
8 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 In Re the Estate of Gihon · In re Estate of Graves · Binns v. LaForge · Connell v. Crosby · Hooper v. Shaw
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he duty is an expense or a charge against the estate of the decedent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the Federal estate tax paid by the executor is to be properly considered as a debt or an expense of administration of the estate, there can be no question but that the deduction of that tax was properly made by the county court.””
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.