Frank v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 1964 · most notably Sanford v. Kane (1889), Dillman v. Nadelhoffer (1896)
32 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 Tomlinson v. Matthews
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * where the husband undertakes to prefer his wife to the exclusion of other creditors, the proof should be clear and satisfactory that the wife has a valid subsisting debt, one which is to be enforced, and payment exacted, regardless of the fortune or misfortune of the husband. Such was not the character of this debt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lund v. Howell
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.