Hale v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Brock v. Brock (1967), Stanley v. Beck (1942)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 De Moville v. Merchants & Farmers Bank · Mahone v. Williams · O'Rear v. O'Rear · Hale v. Cox · Keith & Wilkinson v. Forsythe
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before dower is assigned, she [the widow] has no standing at law to a share of the rents on lands in which she has such right. Bettis v. McNider, 137 Ala. 588 , 34 So. 813 , 97 Am.St.Rep. 59 . But such right is available in equity, after the dower has been assigned, extending back to the date of the death of her husband. [Citations omitted.] [[Image here]] “... The only theory on which equity will award her such rents for a period prior to the time when the dower is assigned is that she thereby has become the owner of that so assigned, as of the date of her husband’s death. Being the owner, the right to rents is an incident.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilder v. Mixon
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.