Linville v. Ripley’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1976
15 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 Orchard v. Wright-Dalton-Bell-Anchor Store Co. · Cloud v. Inhabitants of the Town of Pierce City · McClanahan v. West · In Re Lydia Sisk · Stark v. Kirchgraber
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under these holdings it would not be equitable for the administrator of the estate to retain the proceeds from the sale. They should be returned to the proper party.”
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.