Fleitas v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
147 U.S. 550 · 1893
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1984 · most notably Ryan v. Amazon Petroleum Corp. (1934), Thomas v. Lyles (In Re Thomas) (1984)
9 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 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 Upshur v. Briscoe · Hennequin v. Clews · Porter v. Lazear · 39 La. Ann. 377 - Burns v. Thompson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The separate property of the wife is that which she brings into the marriage by inheritance, or by donation made to her particularly, and is divided into dotal or extradotal. Dotal property is that which the wife brings to the husband to assist him in bearing the expenses of the marriage establishment. Civil Code. art. 2.3:57. Extradotal property, otherwise called paraphernal property, is that which forms no part of the dowry.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“brings into the marriage, or acquires during the marriage by inheritance or by donation made to her particularly,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nalle v. Young
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.