Phelan v. Elbin’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2000
2 district · 12 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 Union Trust Co. v. Stamford Trust Co. · State v. Thresher · Dorrance v. Raynsford · Griswold v. Bigelow · State Ex Rel. Moriarty v. Donahue
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute treats this fund as real estate, directing that it shall be distributed as the real estate would have been; this must mean to the same persons and subject, as between them, to the same incumbrances, conveyances, and equities to which the real estate would have been subject, had there been no conversion, and the real estate itself had been distributed. It cannot have been the intention, by this statute, tó turn over the fund to heirs who have sold and received full value for their shares, or to thwart attaching creditors who have perfected liens upon such heirs’ interest in the land. * * *””
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.