De Valengin's Administrators v. Duffy’s Empirical Analysis
39 U.S. 282 · 1840
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 1971 · most notably 20 Wash. 2d 740 - Tucker v. Brown (1944), Thompson v. Mann (1909)
5 federal appellate · 23 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 The Santissima Trinidad · Hughes v. The Union Insurance Company of Baltimore · Chapman v. Andrews · Darby, Et. al. v. The Brig Erstern, et al.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever properly or money is lawfully recovered or received by the executor or administrator after the death of the testator or intestate, in virtue of his representative character he holds as assets of the'estate, and he is liable therefor in such representative character to the party who has good title thereto.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.