Den v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1846
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2012
11 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 Barber v. Harris
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I apprehend no doubt can exist as to the true character of an estate conveyed to husband and wife, during coverture. They take neither as joint tenants nor tenants in common, but become seized of a `peculiar estate, resulting from that intimate union, whereby the legal existence of the wife is suspended during the marriage, or at least incorporated with that of the husband.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.