Loomis v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1935
1 federal appellate · 13 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 Brown v. Forsche · Loomis v. Armstrong
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ In doing these things the administrator is required to exercise the ordinary prudence, care, and judgment of men doing the kind of business the deceased was engaged in at the time of his death. It is not the highest degree of skill or care, nor the best management and judgment, that the law requires. This would be requiring too much, as will be readily seen, for that would require capacity and ability which would insure success, and is not possessed by more than one-tenth of the persons who engage in business generally. It is the care, prudence, and judgment which the man of fair average capacity and ability brings to bear in the transaction of his own business that furnishes the standard by which the administrator in the performance of his trust duties must be governed. “ ‘ The general rule adopted with respect to the liability of executors is founded upon two principles: “ ‘ (1) That, in order not to deter persons from undertaking these offices, the court is extremely liberal in making every possible allowance, and cautious not to hold executors and administrators liable upon slight grounds. “ ‘ (2) That care must be taken to guard against an abuse of their trust.’ Dayt. Surr. 477; Tebbs v. Carpenter, 1 Madd. 162.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bonine v. Gage““If the estate has been properly administered, and the proceeds disposed of according to law, it is of little consequence to those who have received them whether the evidence of that fact is perpetuated by a decree in the probate court or not, while the final settlement and decree is really the administrator’s best protection against the claim of heirs as in this case is now made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Littell v. Hackley
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.