Harmon v. Peery’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2015
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Barney v. Winona & St. Peter Railroad · United States v. County of Clark · Rohrbach v. . Germania Fire Ins. Co. · Newman v. Kay · Frain v. Burgett
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“were mere dicta "); Harmon v. Peery, 145 Va. 578 , 583, 134 S.E. 701 , 702 (1926) ("Obiter dicta are such opinions uttered by the way, not upon the point or question pending, ... as if turning aside ... from the main topic of the case to collateral subjects.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under the common law, which obtains in Virginia, as to assignment of dower, a widow is entitled, at her election, to have dower assigned to her in each separate tract of land owned by her husband during coverture. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Byars v. Mixon
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.