Faust's Administratrix v. Birner’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1947
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is a good executory devise to the brothers. Our statute provides that the words `dying without issue' shall not be construed to mean an indefinite failure of issue, but that they shall be construed to mean dying without issue living at the death of the first taker.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Humphreys v. Welling
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.