Wittfield v. Forster’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 1977 · most notably Andrews v. California Trust Co. (1940), Hansen v. Bear Film Co. (1946)
34 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 Morffew v. S.F. & San Rafael R.R. · Nichols v. Allen
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`to George Foster ... as trustee in trust for San Diego Lodge No. 35.... To have and to hold unto said trustee, his successors and assigns, forever.'”
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.