Garrett v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably 418 So. 2d 89 - Boshell v. Keith (1982), Wilkerson v. Wilkerson (1935)
36 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 McArthur v. Carrie's Adm'r · Harrison v. Heflin · Greenlees v. Greenlees · Alston v. Alston · Goodwyn v. Baldwin
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"So sweeping is the principle in its scope and operation, that the presumption raised by it is not arrested or rebutted by the proof of any disability, such as infancy or coverture, on the part of the distributees by whom a trustee or administrator has been cited to settlement."”
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.