Erdman Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1964
4 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 McConville v. Ingham · Appeal of Reiff · Powell's Estate · Letterle's Estate · Kirkpatrick'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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court imposed a surcharge upon the accountant in the sum of $6,401.09 because — since the widow had not been given any right to principal — she had to account for the assets she consumed. By obvious error the court imposed an additional surcharge of $6,000 arising from its disallowance of credit for the note; while the disallowance was proper it is clear that the executrix could not be held to account for more than the net balance stated in her original account; . . .”. (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffith Estate
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.