Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1993
24 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 In Re the Final Accounting of Kernochan · In Re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Babcock
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While executors have the power to compromise, compound or release claims against the estate at common law, and in many jurisdictions by statute, and while the power may be conferred as in this case, by will, I am of opinion that the court should not, in advance, advise them how they should exercise their discretion, and would, when it had been exercised, approve or disapprove of their conduct, after considering all the facts, making the test whether their action was for the best interest of the estate or not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sheridan v. Riley“The complainants desire to be instructed as to their duties in respect to this matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sheridan v. Riley
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.