Gum v. Gum’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1993
14 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 John Voorhees v. James Jackson · Hartigan v. Hartigan
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While contingent right of dower is not technically an estate but is a mere lien or charge which may be released or relinquished, it is still a valuable property right, and we do not doubt that the statute intended to confer upon the court the right not only to settle the status of the parties, but the future rights of each in the property”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Smith“There does not seem to be any doubt that, as to existing property -- and the property in this case was in existence at the time of the decree for the divorce -- the court has a right under this section to settle the rights of each party in respect to the property of the other, and if need be to extinguish them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Smith
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.