Fischer v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Crowson v. Wakeham (1995), De Ayala v. MacKie (2006)
72 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 Kelley v. Barnhill · Halbert v. Alford, Guardian · Lehman v. Gajusky · Chalmers v. Gumm · Feldstein v. Feldstein
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to authorize an appeal in a probate matter, it is not necessary that the decision, order, decree, or judgment referred to therein be one which fully and finally disposes of the entire probate proceeding. [Citations omitted.] However, it must be one which finally disposes of and is conclusive of the issue or controverted question for which that particular part of the proceeding was brought [Citation omitted.]_ ‘This statute doubtless has application only to such decisions, orders, or judgments as at the end of a term would be held conclusive, as adjudicative of some controverted question or right, unless set aside by some proceeding appellate or revisory in its nature.’”
6 later decisions 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.