Ward v. Nestell’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1924
11 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 Laton v. Balcom · Cook v. Clinton · Campau v. Lafferty · Campau v. Dubois · Horton v. Ingersoll
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law does not permit a husband to acquire a tax title adverse to the title of his wife. This tax title inured to her benefit just as conclusively as though he had taken the title in her name. It could not be made the basis of an adverse possession during her life””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. Myers““I agree with Mr. Justice Grant that the husband, while in joint occupancy of land with his wife, cannot acquire a tax title valid as against her.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. Myers
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.