Gatch v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1947
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Bellinger v. Thompson · Martin v. Ellerbe's Adm'r · Irwin v. Backus · Chaquette v. Ortet · Heirs of Clark v. Ellis
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But, as Mr. Woemer points out, the historical justification of this rule, however valid in England, does not exist in this country, and therefore many of the states have discarded the rule itself, either by judicial authority or by statutory enactments. And this is true in this state. The statute provides that, whenever all the executors or administrators die, resign, or are removed, administration of the estate remaining unadministered shall be granted to those next entitled, if they be competent and qualified, and that the new administrator fis entitled to the exclusive administration of the estate, and for that purpose may maintain any necessary and proper action, suit, or proceeding on account thereof, against the executor or administrator ceasing to act, or against his sureties or representatives.’ Hill’s Ann. Laws Or. §§ 1098,1099. The plain purpose of these provisions is that the assets of an estate shall always be in the hands and under the control of an acting executor or administrator, and subject, in the manner designated by law, to the jurisdiction and supervision of the county court. To this end it contemplates that, when an executor or administrator dies or is removed, all the property in his hands belonging to the estate shall pass to his successor, and such successor is given power and authority to maintain all proper actions, suits, or proceedings to secure the possession thereof. Assets which have been converted into money are none the less still unadminist”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Hutchinson
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.