McDowell v. Brantley’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2018
9 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 Fretwell v. McLemore · McDowell v. Jones · Jones' Executors v. Lightfoot · Yniestra v. Tarleton · Pinkston v. Huie
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A claim, in the sense here used, is almost the synonym of moneyed demand; for it is required to be presented, only when money is claimed to be due. It has no reference to property alleged to be withheld. It must be payable in money, although it is not necessary it should be due and payable presently."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harbin v. Estess“"facilitate a safe and speedy settlement of estates, by furnishing the personal representative the means of determining its financial status within [the designated time] after his appointment."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harbin v. Estess
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.