Prather v. McClelland’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Taylor v. McClintock (1908), Olds v. Traylor (1944)
2 federal appellate · 137 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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a will has been probated, its provisions and directions shall be executed, unless the same are annulled or suspended by order of the court probating the same in a proceeding instituted for that purpose by some person interested in the estate.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Devitt · Walker v. Irby““Upon the filing of such application, the clerk shall issue a citation for the executor or administrator with the will annexed to appear at a regular term of such court and answer such application, the substance of which application shall be set forth in the citation; and such citation shall further direct such executor or administrator to refrain from executing the provisions and directions in the will that are objected to, until such application has been heard and decided by the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. Irby““With regard to all other assignments upon charges given and refused, we deem it sufficient to say that we think the charges given weré substantially correct, and. in so far as the charges refused embraced correct propositions proper to be given, that they were sufficiently embraced in the charges given.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodgers v. Fleming
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.