Bent v. Bent’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2009
15 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The law is well settled in this state that the husband may surrender to the wife the right to her personal property, which the law gives him by reason of the marriage; that he may do this by an antenuptial contract to that effect, by allowing her to claim and control for a long time property given her during the coverture as her separate property, and refraining to exercise the right which the law gives him to take from her such property and use it as his own, and by making gifts himself to the wife.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Witters v. Sowles
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.