Allen v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1943
8 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 Symonds v. City of Cincinnati · Rogers
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The wife, having nothing on which the will could operate, is held to be a mere cipher in the transaction. The will, therefore, was that of the husband in the same manner as though the wife had not signed it, and all her declarations and acts must be rejected as surplusage.” (Allen v. Allen, supra, p. 24 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Samuelson
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.