Yale v. . Dederer’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1966 · most notably Grand Island Banking Co. v. Wright (1898), Radford v. Carwile (1879)
42 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ But there is a strong additional reason why this Court should decline, at this time, to adopt the fictitious theories on this subject, which have so long prevailed in the English Courts. Married women are not hereafter to be indebted to equity merely for protection or the enjoyment of their separate estates. They hold them by a legal title, and have a legal right to dispose of them. The Acts of 1849 and 1860, [in this State the Act of 1850,] are henceforth, if not repealed, to be the source of their power over such estates. There is no longer any foundation for the argument, that as equity creates and protects these estates, equity has a right to control them. Rules, therefore, which have grown up under this idea, which I regard as to some extent illusory, will be hereafter inappropriate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maclay v. Love
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.