Elias Kane v. Gabriel Paul’s Empirical Analysis
39 U.S. 33 · 1840
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1953 · most notably Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad (1893), James Moody Vaughan v. Henry Northup James Moody (1841)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The distinction is, that when an executor sues in respect of a cause of action which occurred in the lifetime of the deceased, he must declare in the detinet, that is, in his representative capacity only. But where the cause of action accrues after the death of the testator, if. the money recovered will be assets, the executor may declare in his representative character, or in his own name.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Senter v. Burkhalter
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.