Picot v. O'Fallon’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 1943
24 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 Smith's Heirs v. Smith's Adm'r · Caldwell v. Lockridge · Jones v. Brinker · State ex rel. Collins v. Stephenson · Mitchell v. Williams
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . whether an annual settlement (preceding the final settlement of an executor or administrator) has the force and effect of a judgment, precluding any inquiry into its correctness on a final settlement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jenner v. Gostina
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.