Turner v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1935
4 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 Martin's Heirs v. Martin
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.
““In this view of the case, it becomes entirely immaterial whether adultery in this state operates a forfeiture of dower or not, •as the demand set up by the bill is not one of dower, which is a common-law right, but a demand as heir (a forced heir, if you will, •of the deceased), which is a right purely statutory ; and as the statute creating this right has not thought proper to make adultery .a forfeiture of the right, we have no power to legislate ourselves upon the subject, and to create a disability where the statute is silent upon the subject. This view of the case is decisive, as to the complainant’s right to recover on the case made by the record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Cox
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.