Bennett v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1982
7 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 Sykes v. Meacham
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The object of the statute was, to protect the estates of deceased persons, and insure their speedy settlement, without embarrassment from creditors who slumber upon their rights and take no pains to inform themselves of facts as to which information is easily to be obtained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““not criminal neglect, but any neglect that was ‘censurable,’ ‘blameworthy‘the neglect which exists when the loss can fairly be ascribed to his (the plaintiff’s) own carelessness, improvidence, or folly;’ ‘failure to make reasonable inquiry.’ ” 93 Me. at 243 , 44 A. at 895 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Agway, Inc. v. Luce
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.