Reinhardt v. Gartrell’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2014
20 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The courts of Chancery have no power to take such cases out of the Probate Courts, for the purpose of proceeding with the administration. But their power and functions to relieve against fraud, accident, mistake or impending irremediable mischief, is universal; extending over suitors in all courts, and over the decrees in .those courts, obtained by fraud, or rendered under circumstances which render it inequitable that they should be enforced. Hence, any frauds in the settlements of administrators or executors may be corrected. When that is done, if there be still a necessity for continued proceedings in the course of administration, such proceeding should go on in the Probate Court, upon the basis of the reformed settlement. The object of Chancery intervention having been accomplished, the jurisdiction in equity should cease with the necessity. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“By an act approved April 16, 1873, this “exclusive original jurisdiction, in all matters pertaining to probate and of administration,” was transferred to the Circuit Court. The experiment was not satisfactory, and by the Constitution of 1874, the Probate Courts were re-established. It was provided, (Art. VII, Sec. 34,) that they should have “such exclusive original jurisdiction in matters relative to the probate of wills, the estates of deceased persons, executors, administrators, guardians, etc., * * * as is now vested in the Circuit Court, or may be hereafter prescribed by law.””
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.