Downey v. Schrader’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1995
17 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 State Ex Rel. Fire Dist. of Lemay v. Smith · Ex Parte Higgins v. Hoctor · Ussery v. Haynes · State Ex Rel. Mueller Baking Co. v. Calvird · 206 Mo. App. 312 - Painter v. Painter
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]atters of probate business, as commonly understood and under all the authorities, pertain to the proving of wills, the appointment of guardians and curators, and the administration and settlement of estates of decedents, incompetents and the like.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“guardians and curators of minors and persons of unsound mind,”
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.