Fish v. Fish’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Travelers Indemnity Company v. Chumbley (1965), Grissum v. Reesman (1974)
7 federal appellate · 19 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 Downey v. United Weatherproofing, Inc. · Zuber v. Clarkson Construction Co. · Denny v. Guyton · Baysinger v. Hanser · Metropolitan Paving Co. v. Brown-Crummer Investment Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]cts and circumstances between spouses may not have the same significance ... as the same acts and circumstances between strangers might have.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“consistently identif[ying the Reuters] as tenants by the entiret[y].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cutcliff v. Reuter
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.