Fatjo v. Pfister’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Matter of Application of Schuler (1914), 3 Cal. 5th 248 - Jacks v. City of Santa Barbara (2017)
29 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is perfectly plain that the legislature has attempted ... to levy a property tax upon all estates of decedents, infants, and incompetents. The ad valorem charge for filing the inventory is in no sense a fee, or compensation for the services of the [court] officer, which are the same, as respects this matter, in every estate, large or small. To call it a fee is a transparent evasion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To call it a fee is a transparent evasion”
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.