Cameron v. Frazer’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2008
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 Phillips v. Taylor · Abell v. Abell · Perkins v. Iglehart · In Re the Accounting of Thompson · Old Colony Trust Co. v. Hale
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These limiting words, like the horse, implements and other goods and chattels covered by them are of the earth, earthy. They suggest tangible property, goods and chattels, which have a ‘local habitation,’ not securities or other choses in action, especially when securities and choses in action are specifically bequeathed in three subsequent items____””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Emmert v. Hearn““[T]he words ‘all my personal property,’ without any limiting context, may be all-inclusive; they may include personal property of every kind, tangible or intangible, goods and chattels or choses in action, owned when the will is made or thereafter acquired.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Emmert v. Hearn“personal property belonging to me in the home”
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.