Weems, Receiver v. Masterson’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently November 1973 · most notably Hartel v. Dishman (1940), Welch v. Focht (1918)
6 federal appellate · 71 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While proceedings in probate are to some extent in rem, we do not see that such is in all respects their character as to parties actually before the court in person or by legal representation; and, in a proceeding in guardianship such as that on which the rights of the parties in this case rest, we do not see why the same rule that would be applied to an adversary proceeding- in a district court should not be applied to a ward whose guardian makes an application for an order to sell property of the ward’s estate, obtains it, sells, reports the sale, and has it confirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the absence of such a showing, it must be presumed that the jurisdiction exercised in a given case was the exercise of lawful power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reeves v. Fuqua
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.