Foxworthy v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 1997 · most notably Hale v. Hale (1920), Goodan v. Goodan (1919)
65 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Stark v. Kelley · Throgmorton v. Grigsby's Adm'r
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to attend, nurse, and care for each other ... should be the natural prompting of that love and affection which should always exist between husband and wife.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.