French v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1937
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.
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.
““ It is certainly true, that it is competent for adult heirs at law to consent, or agree, that the property of the intestate should be kept together for the support of their mother, or for any lawful purpose, and such consent will justify the administrator, in the absence of creditors, or so far as the distributees are concerned, in conforming his action to their wishes on this subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swaine v. Hemphill
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.