In re Bauquier’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Michigan Trust Co. v. Bronson (1923), In re Dolenty's Estate (1916)
86 state decisions — followed in 12 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 In re the Estate of Doyle · In re the Estate of Wiard · Estate of Calahan · Coope v. Lowerre · Lutz v. Christy
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not think, however, that the mere fact that the appellant claims property as her own, which the other legatees insist belongs to the estate, would of itself, and without some reference to the honesty of her claim show a want of integrity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[nlo degree of legal or moral guilt or delinquency ... is sufficient to exclude a person from the administration [pursuant to] preference given by the statute, unless such person has been actually convicted of an infamous crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court admitting a will to probate after the same is proved and allowed, must issue letters thereon to the persons named therein as executors, who are competent”
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.