In re Andrews'’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1960
6 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 26 Del. Ch. 344 - First National Bank v. Andrews · Myers v. Fortunato · Ex parte Dixon
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Orphans’ Court may, in its discretion, refuse an order for sale of real estate, or to approve a sale, if under the circumstances it is considered improper that such sale should be made; although it should sufficiently appear that the personal estate is not sufficient for the payment of the debts, or that said sale was regularly conducted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * although it [the Orphans’ Court] can take jurisdiction originally only under an express provision of a statute or constitutional grant, once that jurisdiction is acquired, it can and should exercise such powers, equitable or legal, and apply such principles as may be incidental or necessary to completely determine the matter before it.””
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.