Ex Parte Small’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1997
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The law provides administration as a means for the collection and distribution of assets. The right of those interested to have collection and distribution according to law is the dominant right; the right of any particular person to take charge of the assets is a secondary right. If the allowance of the claim to exercise this secondary right would result in defeating* the main purpose to be attained, it must be refused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Ex Parte Small, we noted that one of the highest causes [upon which to deny a person administration] would be that the person applying was without character upon which to base a trust, or had given by conduct convincing reasons for the conclusion that he designed to divert the assets from the purposes of administration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parkman v. Hanna
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.