Dusbiber v. Melville’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1941
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 Born v. Horstmann · Phillips v. Ferguson · Ransdell v. Boston · Conant v. Stone
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.
““I understand that Florence A. Melville . . . has been compelled by the extreme cruelty of her husband to leave her home and that she cannot live with him because of his cruelty toward her. Now, my will is, that in case she shall be compelled to live apart from her said husband . . . and shall have to support herself, that I give, devise and bequeath to her . . . the sum'of two thousand dollars.” (p. 602.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. Hickman
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.