Van Fleet v. Van Fleet’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 1943
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 Peters v. Gallagher
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ As a part of his case the claimant proved declarations of the intestate tending to show that he expected to pay for the claimant’s services. The defense then offered to show declarations of the intestate of a different character, made near the same time; but the offer was overruled. In support of the offer cases were referred to which have held declarations of a party that he had made his will, or that he had destroyed his will, admissible under some circumstances. But those were cases in which the declarations when made were not adverse to the interests of any one. Those which were offered in this case were declarations in favor of the party making them, and adverse to the interest of another. No plausible argument can be made in support of the offer to prove them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Freda v. Tishbein
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.