Edmonds v. Edmonds’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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.

1. “"The husband's rights so far as the wife's property is concerned are determined by our statute (supra), and his occupancy or use or control thereof are not only not provided for thereby but they are expressly provided against."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Owens v. Owens · Owens v. Owens

2. “It follows that a husband in Virginia may be a trespasser upon his wife’s lands whenever she is not occupying them [emphasis added] . . . [and] that she may dispossess him if he is in possession .... It is difficult... to see how the husband, under our statute, can have any right of occupancy of the wife’s real estate unless she resides upon it. [Emphasis added.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Singer v. Singer

3. ““The effect of this statute is to give the wife as full control over her property during the coverture, as her husband has over his. She may sue her husband as if he were a stranger.” (page 658)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Vigilant Insurance v. Bennett