Hughes v. . Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1965
4 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.
Most-quoted passages
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“This provision is manifestly intended, in cases to which it is applicable, to dispense with the necessity of appointing an administrator pendente lite and confers very similar powers upon the executor, and more especially when he has entered upon the duties of his office before the caveat is entered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Palmer's Will
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.