Fairchild v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1959
12 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 Van Steenwyck v. Washburn · Townshend v. Goodfellow · Washburn v. Van Steenwyk · In re the Estate of Gotzian · Hornsey v. Casey
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Is she compelled to elect only as to rights given by law in the estate of which the husband died actually seised, or estates which he assumed to dispose of by the will, or must she go further, and elect as to similar statutory ■ rights in real property conveyed by him in his lifetime, but the title to which his general estate must make good if the title prove defective? The question points out the answer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.