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← 85 VA 116 - Robertson v. Gillenwaters

Robertson v. Gillenwaters’s Empirical Analysis

1888

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
April 1950
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Sharpe's Ex'or v. Rockwood · McCormick's Ex'ors v. Wright's Ex'ors

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The object in making the personal representative a party, as we have seen, is that he may assert his right to the fund in the event there should be debts or outstanding claims to be settled and adjusted.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.