Waters v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 1997 · most notably Ruge v. Ruge (1917), State ex rel. Dawson v. St. Louis Court of Appeals (1889)
40 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Doyle v. Doyle · Daiger v. Daiger · Porter v. Bobb · Morton v. Morton · Harshaw v. Merryman
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the property belonging to them jointly is in his possession, even though she brought it to him by marriage; she can make no binding contract; those who trust her on her husband’s credit do it at their peril.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matlock v. Fuhrmann
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.