Woodson v. Raynolds’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1981
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Smyth v. United States · Beals ex rel. Walker v. Ares · Zimmerman v. Frushour · Harrison v. Harrison · Hoover v. Estate of Hoover
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * *. Where there is a conflict between an opinion and a finding of fact supported by substantial evidence, the finding prevails. * * *"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The relations of both executors and administrators to the estate and to those they represent are confidential and fiduciary and they act in a higlily fiduciary character in their dealings with the estate and its funds. They, are required to exercise the utmost good faith in dealing with heirs or devisees ’* *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wootten v. Wootten
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.