Foose v. . Whitmore’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1955 · most notably Utley v. Donaldson (1876), Collister v. . Fassitt (1900)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the real question always Is whether the wish or desire or recommendation that is expressed by the testator is meant to govern the conduct of the party to whom it is addressed, or whether it is merely an indication of that which he thinks would be a reasonable exercise of the discretion of the party, leaving it, however, to the party to exercise his own discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Thistlethwaite““Both on principle and in consonance with the most modern authorities, X decide that the widow took absolutely.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burnes v. Burnes
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.