Sylvanus v. Pruett’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1989
22 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 Fullen v. Fullen · McCartney v. Osburn · Adams v. Cowen · Mott v. . Ackerman · Merrill v. Boal
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the doctrine of advancements applies only in cases of intestacy... . In cases of testacy, however, the term is frequently found in construing the provisions of wills which have made use of the term in attempting to equalize the distribution of estates among legatees and devisees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he rights of a creditor are fixed by the condition of affairs as they existed at the time of the inception of [the] lien.”
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.