Miller v. McLin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When the wife gives' her money to her husband, and he invests it in land, taking the title to himself, although it may have been agreed between them that the title should be taken to her, her claim will be subordinated to that of the creditors of the husband who are attempting to subject the land to the payment of debts created while the title was in the husband and without knowledge of the equity of the wife.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Springfield State Bank v. Kelly · Hoskins v. Hoskins' Trustee in Bankruptcy

2. ““But this statute does not prevent the wife from giving' to her husband as much of her property as she pleases, nor does it authorize the court, in a contest between the wife and the creditors of the husband, to restore to her money or property that she has seen proper to furnish to her husband. A married woman can make contracts, sue, and be sued, and she has the right under the existing law to make such disposition of her personal estate as she pleases, and, when she permits her husband to take her money and invest it in his name, she occupies no better position so far as the creditors of the husband are concerned than would a stranger who had followed a like course of dealing.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Springfield State Bank v. Kelly · Hoskins v. Hoskins' Trustee in Bankruptcy