Grimes v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1837
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1938
10 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 Chapman v. Armistead · Moore v. Gilliam
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Until such dower shall he assigned, it shall he lawful for her to remain and continue in the mansion-house and messuage thereto belonging, without being chargeable to pay the heir any rent for the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Lowden
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.