Bennett v. Chapin’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1952
17 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 Mandlebaum v. McDonell · Graser v. Stellwagen · Conklin v. Egerton's Administrator · Ingle v. Jones
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that, when a bare power of sale is given to the executors merely to sell the lands for the purpose of paying over the proceeds to devisees, whose right, under the will, to such proceeds, is an absolute and vested right, all such devisees may collectively, before the power of sale is exercised, elect to take the land, instead of the proceeds, and thus prevent a sale.””
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.