Mosely v. Tuthill’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2012
15 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 Ex Parte Tobias Watkins · Satcher v. Satcher's Adm'r · The Amelie · Johnson v. Thweatt · Matheson's Heirs v. Hearin
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the will itself is necessarily a limit upon the jurisdiction of the court. The statute so makes it. The duty of the court is to carry the provisions of the will into execution and to see that the estate of the testator is disposed of as he directs in his testament. To do this, the court must look to the will as its guide. If the provisions of the will contradict the allegations of the petition, the jurisdiction of the court is suspended. It is forbidden to proceed because the will is in the way. This the court must know because the court is as much bound by the directors of the will as the administrator himself. The court, in dealing with the estate, necessarily does so under the limitations of the will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. Atkins
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.