Webb v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Hustad v. Reed (1958), In Re Estate of Ferris (1944)
2 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 37 N.J. Eq. 163 - Executors of Denise v. Denise · Tinkham v. Smith · Armour v. Kendall · 5 N.J. Eq. 99 - Batton v. Allen
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right of an executor or administrator to retain a legacy or distributive share from a debtor to the estate, and apply it to the indebtedness, has long been recognized by the law as existing without any statute. It is not the technical right of set-off in actions at law. It is rather called in the old cases the ‘right of retainer.’ It is an equitable right of its own nature, and not at all dependent upon any statute.’’”
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.