Sanders v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1944
10 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 Ex parte Elyton Land Co. · Randle v. Boyd · Huss v. Central Railroad & Banking Co. · Hilliard v. Binford's Heirs · Wood v. Morgan
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Dower attaches upon marriage to every estate of inheritance of which the husband is seized during coverture. It is inchoate until death. Neither the husband nor his creditor can deprive her of this right, against her consent.'’”
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.