Kirk v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1810
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1938
7 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 Lessee of Watson v. Bailey · Swift v. HAWKINS AND OTHERS · Davey v. Turner · Lyle v. Foreman · Patton v. Caldwell
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It may be proper to take notice of deeds of mortgage of the husband’s property. It is understood that by such deeds the wife may be barred of dower, though she was no party to the conveyance. But this depends on another principle, in which the law of Pennsylvania differs from the common law. The right of creditors prevails against the right of dower. A purchaser under an execution against the husband takes the land discharged of dower; and the only mode of proceeding on a mortgage, with us, is to sell the land by an execution. We have no court in which.the equity of redemption can be foreclosed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Porter v. Lazear
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.