Cope Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1988
13 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 Stirling's Estate · Buist's Estate · MacFarlane's Estate · Greenawalt's Estate · Dickinson's Estate
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.
““ ‘(2) Power to change the investments of the personal estate from time to time and to make investments in any interest paying securities they may deem good and safe, without being restricted or limited to such investments only as are now or may be hereafter authorized by law’ (italics supplied).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finley Estate“as the other contention of the trustee was adopted as an alternative basis of the court's opinion, this Court need not reverse the decree if the alternative ground will sustain it.”
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.