Forker v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1934
1 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Gibson v. Chouteau · Kromer v. Friday · Lawson v. Ripley · Philbrick v. Andrews · Harris 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A consideration of the authorities from those states in which the community property law exists seems to establish the principle ‘if either spouse before the marriage has acquired an equitable right to property which is perfected after marriage, the property is separate.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““But the rule also seems to prevail in favor of the community as to the title initiated during the community and perfected after the dissolution of the marriage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ahern v. Ahern
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.