Lipsitt v. Sweeney’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2013
14 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 Matthews v. Thompson · Lannin v. Buckley · Turner v. Morson · Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. Second National Bank · Ames v. Hall
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was the duty of [the trustee} to pay the several distributive shares to the distribu-tees”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beren v. Beren“the time for distribution arrived at the expiration of five years”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beren v. Beren
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.