Robins v. . McClure’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 1957 · most notably In Re the Accounting of Russell (1901), In re the Estate of Babcock (1914)
35 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 Olmsted v. . Keyes · Sedgwick v. . Stanton · Kenyon v. People · Barnes v. . Underwood · Ryder v. . Hulse
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case considered the husband would have been competent to act as administrator but for the will of his deceased wife, and having acted as executor he holds the portion of the estate as to which she died intestate, in his hands as such. Letters of administration, therefore, are not necessary to protect his interest, and no reason would seem to exist Why, as at common law he was entitled to her estate, he could not hold that portion which lapsed by reason of her intestacy in regard to the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maccafil v. Kirkham
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.