Crutcher v. Joyce’s Empirical Analysis
134 F.2d 809 · 1943
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2011 · most notably Vanity Fair Mills, Inc. v. T. Eaton Co. (1956), Jung v. K. & D. Mining Co. (1958)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Reeves v. Beardall · Evans v. Ockershausen · Title Insurance & Trust Co. v. Duffill · Magevney v. Karsch · Gorey v. Guarente
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the word ‘heirs’ in its strict and technical sense applies to persons appointed by law to succeed in the estate in case of intestacy; but it is frequently used to designate those persons who answer this description at the death of a testator.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tooisgah v. Kleppe“announce his election to stand on his pleading, let a final order or judgment be entered dismissing the action, and then appeal from that order or judgment.”
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.