Sackman v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 1978 · most notably 5 Ill. 2d 409 - People v. Palumbo (1955), State v. Nelson (1905)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Lovejoy v. Murray · United States v. Dickson · Holmes v. Goldsmith · Yesler v. Hochstettler · Hobart v. . Hobart
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . a proviso carves special exceptions only out of the enacting clause, and those who set up any such exception must establish it as being within the words, as well as within the reason, thereof.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the conveyance is made during coverture, the presumption arises that it is community property. -This, however, is only a presumption, and may be overcome by evidence. Necessarily, this evidence^, in most instances, is the knowledge of the husband or wife, of the facts touching the origin of the consideration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mattson v. Mattson““Nor shall either, during marriage or afterwards, without the consent of the other, be examined as to any communication made by one to the other during marriage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Snyder
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.