Wait v. Bovee’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1984
1 district · 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The drift of policy and opinion, as shown by legislation and judicial decisions, is strongly adverse to the doctrine of taking by mere right of survivorship, except in a few special cases; and it should not be applied except where the law in its favor is clear.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McLeod v. Free““Our own decisions relative to the rights of husband, and wife, in case of united holdings of real estate, afford no argument here.””
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.