Ferrer v. . Pyne’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 1962 · most notably Woodward v. . James (1889), In Re the Accounting of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1914)
67 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 Balcom v. Haynes
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a certain relation to the testator and to the children of another person standing in the same relation, as to my brother A and the children of my brother B, A only takes a share equal to one of the children of B; and this position is abundantly sustained by the authority of English cases [citing them] and to some extent by the courts of this country. Yet if the case stood upon the words of the residuary clause, alone, we should find great difficulty in confirming, by the sanction of this court, a construction opposed to the apparent meaning of the language used by the testator and”
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.