Ramsey v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 1985 · most notably Tyson v. Spearman (1938), Succession of Wiener (1943)
2 district · 28 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 Sharp v. Zeller · Thomas v. Blair · Murphy v. Murphy · Pearce v. Ford · Keenan v. Baham
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The community status of the property being fixed at the time of the purchase, no declaration in the will and no act of the husband, or of his heirs, to the prejudice of the surviving widow or her heirs, could change or affect that status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.