Davison v. Rake’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1952
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.
Relationships
Relies on Cooke v. . Meeker · Kent v. Dunham · John Dandridge v. Martha Washington's Executors · Brown v. Ricketts · Bradner 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That any person to whom any legacy, etc., has been or may be made by any last will, etc., may maintain an action of debt, etc., against the executor in the Supreme Court or any of the Circuit Courts of the state for the recovery of such legacy after it becomes due * ⅜ * provided that if no time is fixed by the will for the payment of such legacy the said executor or administrator shall have one year after probate to pay and satisfy the legacies given therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beer v. Moffatt“In suits by creditors or legatees not involving the construction and effect of the residuary clause of the will, residuary legatees are interested consequentially only from the circumstance that the recovery of the debt or legacy will reduce the residue, and, under such circumstances, the executor is regarded as the representative of all persons interested.”
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.