Cheek v. Bellows’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1989
15 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.
““She and her children are entitled to a support from the property; and if the husband is absent, there is no reason or rule of law that would prohibit the wife from making a contract to meet the necessities of the case. It would be a strong case that would permit her to go further.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Priddy v. Tabor
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.