Durfee v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1947
18 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 National Bank of Troy v. Stanton · Fish v. Morse · Hatheway v. Weeks · McElroy v. Hatheway · Batchelder v. Russell
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems plain, then, that the right to establish the claim in controversy on merely constructive notice to the parties concerned cannot be admitted on any assumption that the proceeding is a proceeding m rein. The res having disappeared, and the demand having become the personal obligation of the executor and his sureties, they are entitled to have it treated as a personal obligation in the proceedings to prove.it. They are entitled to their day in court, and to personal service of process, or a substitute therefor, to bring them before the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sellars v. Sellars““ Even the sureties could question them [his acts] only in case attempt was made to charge them personally upon his default in making payment. The giving of such a bond substantially completes the administration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.