Fry v. Dewees’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Cosgrove v. Young (1981), Lathrop v. Eyestone (1951)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 64 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 Burden v. Gypsy Oil Co. · Shaffer v. Kansas Farmers Union Royalty Co. · J. R. Crowe Coal & Mining Co. v. Atkinson · Carlock v. Krug · Sawin v. Osborn
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court shall have full power to make any order not inconsistent with the provisions of this article that may be necessary to make a just and equitable partition between the parties, and to secure their respective interests.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It has been held that while an action in partition is a statutory action, the court has substantially the same powers in administering it as were exercised by chancery courts under equity practice and that the last quoted section of the statute gives the court full power to settle all questions involved on just and equitable principles.” (p. 494.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Emery v. Goff · Johnson v. Burns““As a general rule, a tenant in common of a fee-simple estate in real property is entitled to partition as a matter of right. Such right, however, is subject to the full power of the court to 'malce a just and equitable partition between the parties and to secure their respective interests. “Where owners of an entire estate convey to others for a limited term an interest in oil, gas and minerals in place, and in such as may be produced under oil and gas leases to which the conveyances are subject, and there has been exploration for and production of oil under such leases, the rights in and to production are inextricably bound up with mineral rights, and one tenant in common may not compel partition of the mineral interests as a matter of right." (Syl. HI 4, 6.)”
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.