Fersinger v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2018
2 district · 17 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 Schapiro v. Howard · Estate of Childs v. Hoagland · Darden v. Bright · Welsh v. Gist · Frick v. Frick
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[e]xtrinsic evidence should not be admitted to show that the testator meant something different from what his language imports' "). The second reason relates more directly to the law of wills and other testamentary instruments: "an oral utterance would not be a compliance with the statutory requirement that a will be in writing.”
2 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.