Frazier v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Rastetter v. . Hoenninger (1915), Weidner v. Crowther (1957)
127 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 9 E.H. Smith 555 - Edson v. . Parsons · Carmichael v. Carmichael · Bower v. Daniel · Gerbrich v. Freitag · Sanborn v. Perry
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If two persons make wills, each devising his property to the other, there is no necessary inference that the wills were 'the result of any mutual or reciprocal agreement or understanding. Such wills might be executed without either party knowing that the other had executed his will, but where the parties execute-their wills by the same instrument, it is not possible that such course could be adopted without some previous understanding or agreement between them. Each would necessarily know what disposition the other had made of his property.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Canada v. Ihmsen · Menke v. Duwe
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.