Neelly v. Lancaster’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1928
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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the framers of the law intended a different construction it would have been easy to accomplish it either by expressly abolishing curtesy, or by directing a different succession on the death of the wife. But under the provisions of the law quoted, and the construction that we have heretofore placed upon it, whatever interest the husband may acquire in the lands of his wife by marriage may be swept away by her subsequent conveyance or devise of them. Bagley v. Fletcher, 44 Ark. 153 ; Milwee v. Milwee, 44 Ark. 112 ; Roberts v. Wilcoxon, 36 Ark. 355.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Simpson
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.