Gullett v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1957
5 federal appellate · 9 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 In re Taylor's Will · Lessley v. Lessley · Evans v. Price
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court in Lessley v. Lessley , 44 Ill. 527 , in discussing the right of the election of the widow as given her by the Dower act, said that right was based upon the ground that the wife has an interest in the estate of her husband of which he cannot deprive her, by will or otherwise, without her consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Canavan v. McNulty
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.