McPhee v. Fairweather’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2015
4 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A person convicted of the murder of a decedent shall not be entitled to inherit from the decedent or to take any part of his estate as a devisee. The part of the decedent's estate to which the murderer would otherwise be entitled shall pass to the persons entitled to it as though the murderer had died during the lifetime of the decedent." § 732.802, Fla.Stat. (1981).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[T]he statute itself is clear. The decedent's estate `shall pass as though the murdered [the second wife] had died during the lifetime of [the] decedent.' Id. Appellees are entitled to the entire estate under the will." Fairweather, 444 So.2d at 465 .”
2 later decisions 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.