Head v. Spier’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1957
15 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 Martin v. Martin · Holden v. Spier · Merrill v. Lake · Fletcher v. Wormington · Smith v. Lynch
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The probate court, having jurisdiction to make settlement and distribution of a decedent’s estate, may determine the share of each distributee, and to that end can inquire into and determine the indebtedness of the distributee to the .estate and order a deduction of the same from his share.” (syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Channell
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.