Messmore's Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 1999 · most notably 243 Pa. Super. 349 - Crislip v. Harshman (1976), Commonwealth v. Stevenson (1978)
32 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 Ex Parte Lennon · People Ex Rel. Hackley v. Kelly · Passmore Williamson's Case · Kelly v. Montebello Park Co. · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Di Giacomo v. Heston
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although not charged with fraud arising malo animo-, appellant is guilty of maladministration of trust funds, and this is a species of fraud; he is, therefore, not in the position of one who pleads inability to pay because of poverty which came upon him through no- fault of his own. The law is not lenient to those in the position of appellant.””
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.