Head v. Bridges’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 1984
1 district · 21 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The law of the joint liability of executors is that each one is responsible for his own acts only, unless by his own act or gross negligence he enables or permits his co-executor to waste the estate * * *.”
2 later decisions 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.