Fischer v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1965
14 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 Wintuska v. Peart · Ford v. Jones · Fulton v. Teager · Wickersham v. Wickersham · Masonic Widows' & Orphan Home & Infirmary v. Hieatt Bros.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * And upon the death of both of them or the marriage of her the said Margaret, then in that or either event the entire estate herein devised to my said son, shall descend to the children of him and the said Margaret, or the descendents of said children.” (Italics added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where the language indicates a purpose to or fixes the time of the vesting of the remainder estate, even though the remaindermen be designated as children, it is the rule that the intention of the testator must be carried out in the construction given the instrument.””
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.