Wilcox v. . Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
November 1903
most recently cited
1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It (the contract) purports neither to charge her separate estate nor to be for her benefit; and if it had, the court of a justice of the peace would have had no jurisdiction in the matter,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harvey v. . Johnson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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