Mead v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
135 F.2d 819 · 1943
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 1990 · most notably Boyer v. Bealor (1959), Commissioner v. Siegel (1957)
30 federal appellate · 18 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 Irving Trust Co. v. Day · Dexter v. Hall · Perry v. Strawbridge · Trustees of the Freeholders & Commonalty of Brookhaven v. Smith · In Re the Estate of Greenberg
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One cannot come to a market as a purchaser with a fair consideration, if, as was held in the Collins case, the husband has `power by his will to bar, or extinguish the common law rights of his widow'. The concept of purchasing with a fair consideration assumes rights and powers in the widow which cannot be cut off, except by her own election, on a bargaining basis. If she is to be considered a purchaser with a fair consideration, there is implicit the idea of offer and acceptance — that the husband's bequest is a valid offer which, to be binding, must be accepted by the widow.”
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.