Fehringer v. Fehringer’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2005
6 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 First American National Bank v. Cole · Ridley v. Halliday · Wilson v. Bogle · Chickamauga Trust Co. v. Lonas · Holt v. Hamlin
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. “SIXTH-: I hereby give, devise and bequeath unto my two sons, Louis Fehringer and Anthony Fehringer, tlie following described real property situated in the County of Obion, State of Tennessee to wit: Seventy-five acre tract of land located and situated in Section 12, Route 1, Obion County, Tennessee, known as the Fehringer Farm, to have and to hold for and during their natural life only and upon death of either of my said sons their interest in the above described real property, I hereby, give devise and bequeath unto the heirs of his body * * *” (emphasis added). “SEVENTH: All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, real, personal and mixed, wheresoever situated, of which I may be entitled at the time of my deceased, I give, devise and bequeath to my two sons, Louis Fehringer and Anthony J. Fehringer, share and share alike. ’ ’”
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.