Frick v. Frick’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably LeRoy v. Kirk (1971), Emmert v. Hearn (1987)
28 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 Zimmerman v. Hafer · Heirs of Wright v. Minshall · Dalrymple v. Gamble · Walston's Lessee v. White · Warner v. Miltenberger's Lessee
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * It has generally been held that if a testator devise lands and then contracts for the sale of them, the devisee takes the legal estate, and only that, in equity, by reason of the revocation of the devise by the alteration of the estate. But if he has previously sold the lands and then devises them by words comprehensive enough to embrace all his interest in them, including his interest in the purchase money, we can see no valid reason why the latter should not pass to the devisee as well as the legal estate.” (Emphasis in original) 82 Md. at 227 .”
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.