Weir v. . Page’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “having in relation to her separate estate all the rights of a feme sole , whether and to what extent her protecting disabilities ought to be removed and her liabilities in dealing with her separate estate as to all persons other than her husband, made commensurate with her rights, and whether such alterations in the law would not prevent much injustice and many frauds, are questions to be addressed to the wise consideration and sound discretion of the lawmaking power.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Finger v. Hunter.