McNutt v. McNutt’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Evans v. State (1898), Bowen v. Swander (1889)
1 federal appellate · 87 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Hollingworth Magniac v. John R Thomson · Johnston v. . Spicer · Pierce v. . Pierce · Wolford v. Powers · Burt v. Bowles
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is unduly assumed that the law absolutely casts upon the wife an estate in the lands of the husband; whereas it does not undertake to do so where by agreement the parties have fixed the rule which shall govern. The law operates in cases where there is no contract, but does not operate where the parties have for themselves agreed upon the mode in which marital rights shall attach. The law does not assume to override the agreement of the parties, but to furnish a rule where there is no agreement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peet v. Monger
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.