Wells v. Sweeney’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 2006
4 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 Defreese v. Lake · Parsons v. Winslow · Sohier v. Eldredge · 47 N.J. Eq. 193 - Murch v. J. O. Smith Manufacturing Co. · Hatch v. Morris
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.
“Upon the death of either husband or wife the survivor may continue to possess and occupy the whole homestead until it is otherwise disposed of according to law; and upon the death of both husband and wife the children may continue to possess and occupy the whole homestead until the youngest child becomes of age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wisner v. Pavlin
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.