Black v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2000
6 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 In Re the Trust Under the Last Will & Testament of Jackson · Clapper v. Chandler · Nicholls v. Lowther · Smith v. St. Louis Union Trust 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The probate court apparently considered the opportunity to increase the size of the estate to be just cause for vacation of its prior order of probate sale. We do not quarrel with this appraisal and find that the probate court acted within its statutory grant of authority over the estate when it declared the contract void.”
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.