Fischer v. Klink’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2005
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 Schwartz v. Durham · Ridgeway v. Underwood · Puffer v. Welch · Bailey v. Allegheny National Bank · Robinson v. Saxon Mills
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Alta Klink, being entitled to one-twelfth of the proceeds of the sale of the land when made, had such an interest as was subject to assignment. Dating from the death of Christian Nelson the land had all the attributes of personal property, and except in the case of reconversion by agreement of all the heirs, the interest of each heir would be only an interest in the proceeds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unless a contrary intention is manifest or inferable, an assignment ordinarily carries with it all rights, remedies and benefits which are incidental to the thing assigned, except those which are personal to the assignor and for his benefit only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a)ny words or transaction which show an intention on one side to assign and an intention on the other to receive, if there is valuable consideration”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Rounds
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.