Fox v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1970
10 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
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ 'and, if there should be more than is necessary to pay all these bequests, then tbe remainder will be divided between those named in my will in tbe same proportion that my estate bears to their respective bequests, except tbe amount given to my wife, which is not to be increased or diminished by the amount of my estate.’ ” [ 102 Tenn. 77 , 50 S. W. 766 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boulton v. Cochran
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.