Secrest v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1962
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.
Relationships
Relies on Litz v. Exchange Bank · Smith-Wogan Hardware & Imp. Co. v. Bice
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any peirson, before the granting of letters cestamentaa-y or of administration, embezzles or alienates any of the moneys, goiods, chattels, or effects of a decedent, he is chargeable therewith, and liable to an action by the executor or administrator of the estate, for double the value of the property so embezzled or alienated, td be recovered for tbe benefit of the estate.””
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.