Watson v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1969
18 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 Pierce v. . Pierce · Hafer v. Hafer · Gordon v. Munn · Young v. Regents of University of Kansas · Donaldson v. Donaldson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule seems to be well settled that if unreasonable inadequacy or disproportion appears, the presumption of concealment is raised, and the burden is upon the husband, or those claiming under him, to show full disclosure. The relation between those about to become husband and wife is deemed one of unbounded confidence, especially on the part of the woman. (13 R. C. L. 1034, § 54.) “ ‘Good faith is the cardinal principle in such contracts. If the provision made for the wife is unreasonably disproportionate to the means of the hus band, the presumption of designed concealment is raised, and the burden of disproving the same is upon him.’ (21 Cyc. 1250.) ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pattison v. Pattison
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.