Fisher v. Tuller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The right of the appellant to prosecute, an action against the appellee is statutory. * * * We can see no escape from the plain language of this statute, ¡s * * rpjjg statute which gives the right contains its own limitations, and we can ingraft no exceptions upon it. * * * If there were a, common-law right to hold the heir liable for Ihe debts of an ancestor, there might be some plausibility in appellant’s argument, but there is no such common-law rigid. Woerner, Adm’n, § 574, The appellant must therefore take the statutory right as it is bestowed, for he has no other.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Continental Nat. Bank v. Heilman

2. ““Sec. 2442. The heirs, devisees and distributees of a decedent shall be liable, to the extent of the property received by them from such decedent’s estate, to any creditor whose claim remains unpaid, who, six months prior to such final settlement, was insane, an infant or out of the state; but such suit must be brought within one year after the disability is removed: provided, that suit upon the claim of any creditor out of the state may be brought within two years after such final settlement.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Busey v. Smith