Todd v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1977
10 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.
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.
“We have no doubt that the management of the estate of a deceased person, and the disposition of property by executors acting under a will which withdraws the estate from the general control of a probate court, is to be deemed, within the meaning of the law, an “ administration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.