Dowler Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably 90 So. 2d 456 - Lopez v. Lopez (1956), In Re Estate of Keil (1958)
33 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 Cunningham v. Cunningham · Kershaw Estate · Leitch v. Sanford Motor Truck Co. · 109 N.J. Eq. 119 - Nobile v. Bartletta · 130 Pa. Super. 100 - Decker v. Williams
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No benefit accrued to the estate and hence no enforceable obligation arose against it”: 368 Pa. 525 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bossert 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.