Bister v. Menge’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1945
3 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At the dissolution of the community arises the recourse of the wife against the heirs of the husband for one-half the value of the immovables of the community disposed of by him under onerous title in fraud of her rights, and to recover directly from the parties in possession her share of the immovables dis-posed of by the husband by gratuitous title [italics ours].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snowden v. Cruse
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.