Malchow v. Malchow’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Estate of Serbus v. Serbus (1982), Gartner v. Gartner (1956)
27 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 Johnston v. . Spicer · Buffington v. Buffington · Appleby v. Estates of Appleby · Graham v. . Graham · Fischer v. Sperl
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Marriage settlements * * * are matters of history, and have been upheld and sustained by the courts from the earliest times. They are not against public policy, but, on the contrary, are regarded with favor, as being conducive to the welfare of the parties and subservient to the best purposes of the marriage relation, and are uniformly sustained when free from fraud or not expressly prohibited by some statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hafner v. Hafner““In addition to inadequacy of consideration, there must be a confidential relationship between .the parties before fraud will be inferred. Persons under contract to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Levy v. Sherman“but a small portion of what she would otherwise get under the statutes”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kremer v. Kremer
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.