Bethell v. . McKinney’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2005
13 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the present value of the inchoate right of dower of the wife ... as damages or equitable compensation for failure of title to that extent, unless defendant Ivie shall in the meantime procure said deed to be executed by his wife ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the deed to be executed to said Bethell is to contain the usual covenants of warranty and the property relieved of any and all encumbrances now subsisting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“good and sufficient deed in fee simple to the lands described in the contract, with the usual covenants, and relieved of all encumbrances thereon,”
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.