Kyff v. Kyff’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 1975 · most notably Civil v. Waterman Steamship Corp. (1954), Schmelzel v. Schmelzel (1941)
6 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 Goldman v. Goldman · Galusha v. . Galusha · Tirrell v. . Tirrell · 15 E.H. Smith 550 - Hungerford v. . Hungerford
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A married woman has all the rights in respect to property, real or personal, and the acquisition, use, enjoyment and disposition thereof, and to make contracts in respect thereto with any person, including her husband, and to carry on any business, trade or occupation, and to exercise all powers and enjoy all rights in respect thereto and in respect to her contracts, and be liable on such contracts, as if she were unmarried; but a husband and wife cannot contract to alter or dissolve the marriag-e or to relieve the husband from his liability to support his wife. * * * ” Domestic Relations Law, Art. 4, § 51, McKinney’s Consol.Laws, c. 14; Consolidated Laws Service, New York, Vol. 3.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scanlon v. Scanlon
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.