Baum v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1980
15 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 Little v. McGuire · Gist v. Pettus · Cox v. Britt · Murphy v. Murphy · Horrocks v. Basham
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * It is the rule that where property is given in clear language sufficient to convey an absolute fee, the interest thus given shall not be taken away, cut down or diminished by any subsequent vague and general expressions. * * * If it is clearly the intention of the testator that the devisee shall own the fee simple, his subsequent language, directing that what remains of the property at the death of that devisee shall devolve upon a particular person or class of persons, will not cut down the fee to a life estate. The fee, being vested by express and appropriate words, will not be diminished by subsequent words of a vague and general character which are absolutely repugnant to the estate granted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ahrens v. McNutt““I wish to bequeath to my beloved wife, Sarah H. Wright, my house and three lots, * * * Also my liberty bonds * * * and my other moneys that may be received after all debts are paid. If she needs any assistance in managing the property, I appoint my son, W. J. Wright, to assist to the best of his ability. After death of said Sarah H. Wright after the debts are paid all property and moneys are to be equally divided among my four children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ahrens v. McNutt“"The intention of a testator is to be collected from the whole will, and from a consideration of all the provisions of the instrument, taken together, rather than from any particular form of words. The intention is not to be gathered from detached portions alone, and the court should not consider merely the particular clause of the will which is in dispute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ahrens v. McNutt
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.