Brook v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1971
12 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 Riggs v. Price · In re Assessment of Collateral Inheritance Tax in Estate of Lankford · State v. Scott · Cookson v. Toole · Farmers Exchange Bank v. Hageluken
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It appears from the above cases that there is a strong trend of opinion of this court toward the view that the Married Woman's Act has completely emancipated married women in respect to their separate property and that they now have full power under the Married Woman's Act to dispose of their separate real estate without joinder of the husband in the deed of conveyance. This is the ruling in the Hageluken case clearly and unqualifiedly. Some subsequent decisions have thrown some doubt about the rule laid down in that case without in any wise overruling or even seriously criticising it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A married woman shall be deemed a femme sole so far as to enable her to carry on and transact business on her own account. . . . Section 3003 of the same act provides that:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the verdict rendered by the jury is unsupported by any evidence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Underwood
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.