Collins v. Croteau’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1981
9 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 Pineo v. White · Mulchey v. Methodist Religious Society · Kuhlen v. Boston & Northern Street Railway Co. · Gordon v. O'Brien · Licker v. Gluskin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he ... husband, as tenant by the entirety ... [is] entitled to the exclusive possession and control of the premises and to the rents and profits. He ... [has] many of the usual incidents of ownership which the wife... [can]not exercise during his lifetime. Indeed, the usufruct of the property ... [is] his alone....”
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.