McMillan v. Wacker’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1913
7 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 Smith v. Denny · Hill v. Morris
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the death of a party the personal property passes 1o the administrator, and he alone has a right to the possession thereof, unless, indeed, the probate court shall, by order, dispense with any administration, as provided hy statute. It is only ‘after making such order such widow or minor children shall be authorized to collect, sue for, and retain the property belonging to such estate.’ The probate court is the only tribunal having original jurisdiction to determino the question as to whether or not an administration is necessary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scruggs v. Scruggs
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.