Waters v. Herboth’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1942
20 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 O'Brien v. Ash
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the husband (or *Page 710 wife) shall die without any child or other descendants in being, capable of inheriting, his widow (or, her widower) shall be entitled: . . . second, to one-half of the real and personal estate belonging to the husband (or, wife) at the time of his (or, her) death, absolutely, subject to the payment of the husband's (or, wife's) debts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collier v. Porter
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.