Ball v. Paquin.’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1977
8 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 Farthing v. . Shields · Thurber. Whyland & Co. v. LaRoque · Scott v. . Battle · Manning v. . Manning · Flaum v. Wallace Bros.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is evident that the judges were referring to the formalities with which such contracts should be executed. In Bank v. Howell , 118 N.C. 271 , it is said that she can not charge her separate real estate `except upon privy examination.' In Bank v. Ireland , 122 N.C. 571 , the present Chief Justice , writing in that respect for a unanimous Court, referring to Farthing v. Shields, supra , and other cases, said: `Those decisions do not require that the charge shall be made by mortgage.' In so far as it was intimated that no privy examination was necessary, the then Chief Justice and other Justices did not concur. The conclusion is irresistible that where the contract has all of the elements required by the statute and is reduced to writing, assented to by the husband, and the wife is privately examined separate and apart from her husband, it is binding upon her separate real estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Council v. . Pridgen“For the purpose of throwing around her the protection of her husband's counsel and advice, the Legislature declared that with certain exceptions she could not contract without the written consent of her husband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. . Beard“work and labor done and materials furnished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kearney v. . Vann
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.