Goldsmith v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1960
4 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 Wells v. Margraves
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * He [the executor] is not required to decide conflicting claims at his peril, but has a right to have such claims adjudicated in an action to which all claimants are made parties, so that all of them may be bound by such adjudication. He is not required, and should not be required to litigate such issues with a garnishing creditor in one suit, and with the legatees and other claimants of the funds in his hands in another suit. He has a right to have all parties interested bound by a common finding of fact."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Womack v. Berry
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.