Fields v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1940
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I hereby direct my executor to sell my undivided interest in said two tracts of land, . . . and pay the proceeds of such sale equally to the children (that are alive at the time of distribution) of my brother William Fields, of Missouri, and the living children of my brother James Fields. In the event of the death of any of the parties to this bequest, then their portion is to go to any issue they may have left; and, if none is left, then their portion is to be given to the heir or heirs indicated above. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Slattery v. Ryan
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.