Rowe v. Ratliff’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2016
15 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 Muir v. Muir · Anderson v. Anderson · Murray v. Murray
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been the settled rule in this state that a conveyance of real estate made by one after an agreement to marry, without consideration and without the knowledge or consent of his intended wife, is a fraud on the wife and will be declared void to the extent that it deprives her of dower in the real estate conveyed. 12”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mathias v. Martin
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.