Tillman v. Shackleton’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1938
19 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 Glover v. Alcott · Stammers v. Macomb
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.
““The rule which they establish is one of general capacity to own property, and to make valid contracts, binding at law and in equity, in relation to it; and I discover nothing in the statute which so limits that capacity as to prevent her making the first acquisition any more than any subsequent one, on credit. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Werner v. Wegusen““ There was never any impediment to the acquisition of property through purchase by a married woman; the difficulty was that at the common law the ownership passed immediately to the husband by virtue of the marriage relation.” Tillman v. Shackleton, 15 Mich. 456 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howe v. North
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.