Collins v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably Seuss v. Schukat (1934), Guhl v. Guhl (1941)
25 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 Crum v. Sawyer · Dunlop v. Lamb · Nicholas Staub's Appeal from Probate · Luttrell v. Boggs · Stewart v. Stewart
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where it [the contract] indicates, in terms tolerably clear, that the hiisband intended to relinquish all the rights which he had or could have in his wife’s property, not only during but after the coverture, then it descends to her next of kin, and they take it under the intestate laws, just as if she had never been married. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cummings v. Wood““It was not essential that the instrument should say, in express terms, that he released his right to inherit. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cummings v. Wood
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.