Fifer v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 1990 · most notably North v. Graham (1908), Ohio Oil Co. v. Daughetee (1909)
2 federal appellate · 45 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 Britton v. Thornton · Crerar v. Williams · Lombard v. Witbeck · Kohtz v. Eldred · Summers v. Smith
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In case of a devise simpliciter to one person and if he should die, to another, the courts of England and this country have construed the will upon the theory that the testator must have had some contingency in view, and inasmuch as the death of the first devisee is a certain and not a contingent event, the testator must have contemplated death within some particular period of time, and to prevent a lapse and in favor of vested rather than contingent interests, they have considered the life of the testator to be that period.””
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.