Hill v. Boland’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1961
2 district · 13 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 Emerson v. Emerson · Duttera v. Babylon · Dillinger's Appeal · Reiff v. Horst · Lively v. Paschal
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A married woman may contract with her husband or with any other person or persons in the same manner as if she were a feme sole, and upon all such contracts, partnership or otherwise, a married woman may sue and be sued as fully as if she were a feme sole.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cochrane v. Cochrane
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.