Freeman v. Banks’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2013
11 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 First St. Bk. of Bellevue v. Gaines
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is elementary that the executor has the right of possession of the estate. If, after the payment of all just debts owing by the estate, any . property remains that has been specially devised to some person, or institution, it would be the duty of the executor to then deliver such property to the named devisee; or, if sold, to give so much of the proceeds of the sale of such devised property to the devisee as was not needed to pay the debts and costs of administration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harper v. Swoveland
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.