Fuller v. Sylvia’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Stonehill College v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (2004), Clark v. McNeil (1923)
119 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 Weil v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Phillips v. Chase · Doherty v. O'Callaghan · Barker v. Comins · In re Gibson
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A probate court in any proceeding, upon the application of a party and in accordance with the practice established by the Supreme Judicial Court in like cases, may direct that any issues of fact shall be tried by a jury in the Superior Court . . . .” It is to be observed that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bessey v. Bessey
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.