Clow v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 1986 · most notably Nolin v. Pearson (1906), Acuff v. Schmit (1956)
43 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Bennett v. . Bennett · Foot v. Card · Bigaouette v. Paulet · Bassett v. Bassett · Duffies v. Duffies
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Townsend v. Townsend““To entice away, or to corrupt the mind and affections of one’s consort is a civil wrong1 for which the offender is liable to the- injured husband or wife.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. Newman“whether a wife has a corresponding action against third persons for the alienation of the affections of her husband, and depriving her of his society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.