Pitney v. Everson’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1963
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that throughout the will trustees are called executors, but this is a mere descriptio personarum , and even if otherwise intended, could not, as has been remarked already, alter, in any respect, the substantial qualities and attributes of the estate, which, in point of fact, has been called into existence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caruso v. Caruso
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.