Bibb v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1948
1 district · 9 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 Hallet v. Branch Bank at Mobile · Griel v. Marks, Fitzpatrick & Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A presentment which will avoid the bar of the statute must be more than enough merely to excite the inquiry of the personal representative; it must give such information of the existence of the claim, that he may determine — assuming its validity — how far he can proceed safely in the administration of the estate as solvent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Metcalf v. Metcalf
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.