Putnam v. Pitney’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1945
20 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Wilkins v. Ellett · Parsons v. . Lyman · Wilkins v. Ellett · Petersen v. . Chemical Bank · Denny v. Faulkner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This power over the estates of deceased persons situate within its jurisdiction is inherent in any state or county on common-law principles of which the provisions of the probate code in that regard are but declaratory.” (Page 245.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parnell v. Thompson
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.