Turner v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1969
14 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 Bishop v. Howarth
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.
“That the holders of the mortgages in question did not present their claims against the estate did not, as between the executor and the devisees of the mortgaged property, discharge his obligation to pay them off. The extent of the testator’s bounty to his grandson could not be thus reduced by the acts or omissions of third parties. The plaintiff’s (executrix’s) duty was the same as if the devise . . . had been followed by an expressed direction that any mortgage upon it should be paid by the executor. The payment thus required is made to effectuate a gift from the testator to the devisee. It may be, also, the satisfaction of a claim legally presented. It may, on the other hand, be made to a creditor who does not wish to receive it, but prefers to let the debt remain on interest, and rely on his . . . security for its ultimate discharge.”
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.