Thomas v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 1999
3 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 Baylor v. National Bank of Commerce · Starr v. Watrous · In Re Grondin Estate · In re Annie G. Crozier Estate · Sherman v. Moore
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all my debts, ... and all inheritance taxes be paid”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... The testatrix must be presumed to have known that, unless she directed otherwise, the succession taxes paid would be deducted from the several legacies. The presence of the provision for them in the will evinces a desire and intention that they should be satisfied in some other way, and inclusion of them in the same classification as debts, funeral expenses, and ordinary taxes can hardly be regarded otherwise than as expressing an intention that they should be paid out of the estate in the same way and from the same funds as these other charges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Hall
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.