Frail v. Carstairs’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1934
8 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 Peters v. Balke
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If either James, Kate or Margaret Frail shall die unmarried their share shall go to the survivor or survivors of them; and it is my further will that at the death of all these parties named in this article dying unmarried their interests shall all go to my son Thomas Frail, his heirs and assigns forever.”
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.