Jefferson v. Herold’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1986
19 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 Marbury v. Colbert · Becker v. Hampton · Carroll v. Magee · Underwood v. Flosheim Bros. · Stewart Bros. v. Sutton
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court expressly recognized the right of action, not only of the wife, but of the husband, too, as head and master of the community, suing for and on behalf of the dependent wife, for recognition of the homestead exemption and for annulment of the transaction made in fraudem legis.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.