Vanderveer v. Ware’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1951
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 Preslar v. Stallworth
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.
“' “Executors and administrators, even when contracting for matters necessary to the execution of their trusts, do not hind the estate they represent, hut are individually liable on such contracts. Suits against them must he personal, and the judgment is de bonis propriis, and not de bonis testatoris.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelley v. Kelley
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.