Smyth v. Caswell’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1989
12 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 Carroll v. Carroll · Walters v. Prestidge · Wiley v. Pinson · Wood, Pinson & Hanks v. McMeans · Wright v. Hays
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When, however, the probate law has nothing to do with the management of the estate, these comments have no application or binding force. The testator chooses his own' trustee and confides to him the decision as to the justice of alleged claims against his estate, subject only to any provisions he may have made upon the subject in his will and to the general law of the land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ewing v. Schultz
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.