Tate v. Jay’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1951
16 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.
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.
““The decision of the whole case turns upon the question of seizin. “Was the husband, during coverture, seized of an estate of inheritance? Such seizin, during coverture, and the death of the husband, entitle the widow to dower. Was the husband seized of the land? Seizin is either in deed, or in law; seizin in deed, is actual possession; seizin in law, the right to immediate possession. Unless such seizin existed during coverture there can be no dower, because it is an indispensable requisite to her right to dower, so declared by Statute. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pfaff v. Heizman““Lands shall be assets in the hands' of the executor or administrator, and shall be deemed in their possession and subject to their control for the payment of debts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moseley v. McBride
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.