King v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1939
2 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it would be an unwise and unwarranted construction of tbe authority of executors or administrators to infer from any language found in the statute on that subject that they might, upon tlieir own motion, institute-suits to set aside conveyances, or remove clouds from titles to real estate, without any showing, as a condition precedent, that the possession of the same was wrongfully withheld, or that there was any necessity for selling the same, or any part thereof, to satisfy claims against the estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kohn v. McKinnon
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.