Chalk v. Chalk’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2003
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Movl Construction Co. v. Covington Trust & Banking Co. · Southern Exchange Bank v. American Surety Co. of New York · Baldwin v. Shine · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Lewis · Nat'l Surety Corp. v. First Nat. Bk. of Prestonsburg
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After the death of either the husband or wife, the survivor shall have an estate for his or her life in one-third of all the real estate of which the other spouse or anyone for the use of the other spouse, was seized of an estate in fee simple during the coverture, unless the survivor’s right to such dower or interest has been 'barred, forfeited or relinquished.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““So our statute in-relation to dower may be said to read that a husband or wife of a decedent has an estate for life in one-third of all the real estate which the other spouse owned or anyone owned for his or her use during coverture.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.