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Fisch v. Fisch’s Empirical Analysis

1929

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 1948
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Schmieder v. Meyer

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Where there is a provision for a life estate and a remainder, the postponement of the vesting in possession of the remainder is merely for the purpose of providing for the life estate and upon the elimination of that estate in any manner at all the remainder vests.”
    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.