Fagan v. Bugbee’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1973
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.
Relationships
Relies on Tyler v. Treasurer & Receiver General · In Re the Appraisement of Legacies & Assessment of Collateral Inheritance Tax Under the Last Will & Testament of Knoedler · Carter v. Bugbee · In Re the Transfer Tax Upon the Estate of Reed
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.
““The beneficiaries in the present case take by deed of trust and not by contract of insurance. It is the nature of the vehicle, which conveys the right of the property and not the nature of the property itself, which determines the taxability of the transfer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bargain * * * intended to take effect * * * at or after [decedent's] death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.