Fischer v. Jeffries’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2007
5 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 Conley v. Hall · Peabody Coal Co. v. Burks · Smith v. Riherd
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.
“Appellees opposed appellant’s attempt under that statute [KRS 24A.120(l)(b) ] to admit their father’s will to probate in Metcalfe District Court. Consequently, that court was divested of jurisdiction which lodged in the Metcalfe Circuit Court for a trial de novo as to the various issues raised by the parties including the validity of the will.”
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.