Wren v. Wren’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 1983 · most notably Perkins v. Sunset Tel. and Tel. Co. (1909), Kaltschmidt v. Weber (1904)
10 federal appellate · 17 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 Read v. Rahm · Riley v. Mitchell
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 158 of the Civil Code provides that “ either husband or wife may enter into any agreement or transaction with the other, or with any other person, respecting property which either might if unmarried”; and section 159 of the same code provides that a husband and wife may by contract alter their legal relations as to property and the succeeding section makes the mutual consent of the parties thereto a sufficient consideration for such an agreement, etc.”
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.