Armstrong v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2015
6 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 Supervisors v. United States · Anna Mason v. Joseph N. Fearson · Headman v. Rose · President of Georgetown College v. Browne · Myers v. Cann
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Administration of the estate of a person dying intestate must be granted to some one or more of the persons hereinafter mentioned , the relatives of the deceased being entitled to administer only when they are entitled to succeed to his personal estate or some portion thereof; and they are, respectively, entitled thereto in the following order:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Letters of administration must be granted to any applicant , though it appears that there are other persons having better rights to the administration, when such persons fail to appear within three months after the death of the decedent and claim the issuance of letters to themselves.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Administration may be granted to one or more competent persons, although not otherwise entitled to the same, at the written request of the person entitled filed in the court.”
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.