Merrill v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1953
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 Jenkins v. . Fahey · Kessinger v. Wilson · Thaw v. Falls · Garibaldi v. Jones · Tillar v. Bass
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A sale of such lands during the minority of the children tends to'defeat the magnificent policy of the constitution, and should be treated by all courts as void. “It follows that the probate court cannot sell the fee in the land without defeating the spirit and intent of the constitution. It seems to me that no argument or authority is necessary to prove that the constitution, from which it derives its jurisdiction, did not vest the probate court with the authority to defeat its policy or violate any of its provisions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Wofford
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.