Jette v. Harbison’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 1972 · most notably FIRST NATL. BANK OF MELBOURNE v. Berg (1963), 187 So. 2d 690 - Marinelli v. Weaver (1966)
31 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 Matthews v. McCain
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"All property, real and personal, of a wife owned by her before marriage, or lawfully acquired afterward by gift, devise, bequest, descent, or purchase, shall be her separate property, and the same shall not be liable for the debts of her husband without her consent given by some instrument in writing executed according to the law respecting conveyances by married women."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is contended that to all intents and purposes, the note in question made the wife and her property liable for the debt in question. “We do not think there is any merit to this contention. Section 1, Article XI of the Constitution sets out in terms the requirement necessary to bind the property of a married woman to pay her husband’s debt. It cannot be done by a plain promissory note but must be done by an instrument in writing, executed according to the law respecting conveyances of married Women.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * whether or not a judgment secured by the payee on a promissory note executed * * * by the husband and wife may be satisfied by an execution against the wife's separate property,”
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.