Webb v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1971
13 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 Dority v. Dority · Harris v. Hamilton · Riley v. Wilson · Clements v. Ewing · Waggoner Bank & Trust Co. v. Warren
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the de facto existence or non-existence of the marriage relationship is what determines the matter, and that the physical absence or presenceof the husband at the time of the wife's conveyance or contract is not necessarily material,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Bane“an overly narrow view of the relevant decisions,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Bane
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.