King Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1965
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Nirdlinger's Estate · Earp's Appeal · Waterhouse's Estate · Neafie's Estate · 138 Pa. Super. 251 - Spankard's Liquor License Case
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The recapitalization and merger did not affect the capital [nor] increase or decrease the surplus.” (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Soles v. Granger“(3) a corporate liquidation and distribution of assets (4) sale of the stock.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones 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.