Saunders v. Saunders' Adm'r’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1911
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This rule we apply in the present case with the less hesitation, for the reason that the settlement bears upon its face the most palpable marks that it was drawn by a person who was not only entirely ignorant of legal forms, but incapable of expressing his meaning with clearness and precision.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. Walker
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.