Van Maren v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1971 · most notably United States v. Robbins (1926), Beals ex rel. Walker v. Ares (1919)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 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 Guice v. Lawrence
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The separate property of the wife ánd the common property of both husband and wife are equally liable for the debts of the wife contracted previous to her marriage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dillon v. Lineker
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.