Fletcher v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 1986 · most notably Lowe v. Turpie (1896), Sinclair v. Gunzenhauser (1912)
30 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 Prescott v. Trueman · Noel v. Ewing · Stow v. Tifft · Mills v. . Van Voorhies · Strong v. Clem
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Where a husband shall purchase lands; during marriage; and shall, at the time of purchase, mortgage said lands to secure the whole or part of the consideration therefor, his widow, though she may not have united in said mortgage, shall not be entitled to her third of such lands, as against the mortgagee or persons claiming under him; but she shall be entitled to the same as against all other persons.” 1 R. S. 1876, p. 413.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. McCune
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.