Council v. Pridgen’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1944
2 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement that the husband should execute the same deed with the wife was to afford her his protection against the wiles and insidious arts of others, while her separate and private examination was to secure her against coercion and undue influence from him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. . Beard“contract and deal as if she were a feme sole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warren v. . Dail
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.