Ray v. Long.’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1925
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Harrison v. . Ray · Bruce v. . Nicholson · Gorrell v. Alspaugh · Tucker v. . Satterthwaite · Pretzfelder v. Merchants Insurance Co. of Newark
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When lands are conveyed to husband and wife, they have not a joint estate, but they hold by entireties. Being in law but one person, they have each the whole estate as one person.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““an estate in entireties, in which the parties will hold, in the ancient language of the law, per tout et non per my. This estate is fully recognized by our law, and has not been impaired by section 6 of article 10 of the Constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Taylor v. Carraway
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.