Fretz v. Stover’s Empirical Analysis
89 U.S. 198 · 1874
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1967 · most notably Lamar v. Micou (1884), Jones v. Gasch (1967)
6 federal appellate · 4 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nothing could be brought into the litigation by the bill of revivor besides the; mere question whether tile brother, brought in on the bill of revivor, was the executor of the will of Stover, and his legatee and devisee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Newcombe v. Murray
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.