Pike v. Satterthwaite’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2001
3 district · 5 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 24 Del. Ch. 318 - Federal United Corp. v. Havender · Van Winkle v. State · Lewis v. Pawnee Bill's Wild West Co. · Brown v. Wilmington abnd Brandywine Leather Co. · State v. Foote
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right of a widow under Section 3876 is not, however, a debt or demand against the estate in the usual significance of the terms. The right, or claim, does not arise from a concept of consent, express or implied, on the part of the decedent or his personal representative.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right created is an absolute right. It vests in the widow on the death of her husband and becomes an asset of her estate if she should die before payment.”
1 later decision 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.