Foelske v. Doerfler’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1971
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 Bunnell v. Beam · Murray v. Kluck · Baumgras v. Baumgras
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 the testator had used the word ‘remainder’ in the place where he used ‘balance,’ there would be an ambiguity; the question then arising whether it was used in the sense of ‘what is left’ or in the sense of a future estate in the corpus. The testator did use, however, the word ‘balance,’ a word of no technical significance, but meaning in general ‘what is left,’ ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The circumstances prompting the making of a last will and testament therefore must frequently, when the writing itself occasions some uncertainty, be relied on to bring to light the exact relation and attitude of the testator toward devisees as tending to disclose the real plan and purpose for the use and disposition of his property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.