Fletcher v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1947
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Heise v. Barth
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘Considering, however, what clearly appears and is practically conceded, that it was the desire of George N. Fletcher to have his property equally divided among his children, we are of the opinion that the plaintiff has failed to produce that strong and convincing proof to establish a partnership relation which would result in depriving his only daughter of substantially two-ninths of his estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fletcher v. Fletcher
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.