Swift v. Reasonover’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably In Re Arwood (2003), In Re Walls (1984)
5 federal appellate · 12 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The wife’s right to dower, however, is upon' a different basis. Dower is an estate in the land fixed by marriage and death of the husband. It is not dependent upon either the wife’s conduct nor her residence and, as held by the Court of Appeals, is not waived by her misconduct or abandonment of her husband. Such is the rule stated in Brown v. Parks, 71 A.L.R. 284 . That rule is in accord with our cases dealing with the wife’s right to dower.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robison v. Krause
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.