Wait v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 110 state decisions

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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(1) Women shall have the same rights and privileges under the law as men in the exercise of suffrage, freedom of contract, choice of residence for voting purposes, jury service, holding office, holding and conveying property, care and custody of children, and in all other respects. . . .””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Singer v. Singer · Dovi v. Dovi

2. ““* * * Whether the common obligation be imposed by contract or grows out of a tort, the thing that gives rise to the right of contribution is that one of the common obligors has discharged more than his fair equitable share of the common liability.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rusch v. Korth · Employers Mutual Casualty Co. v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.

3. “In the state of Wisconsin, where over and over again for more than fifty years the legislature has in the clearest and most explicit terms removed disabilities of the wife which existed at common law, conferred upon her rights of action against the husband which were totally unknown to the common law, and where it is held that a husband may maintain an action of replevin against the wife, or that the wife may sue the husband with respect to her property, we find no likelihood of the social order being shattered by holding that she has a right of action for injuries done to her person and character as well as to her property whether committed by the husband or third parties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 175 Wis. 2d 420 - Gardner v. Gardner