Shepherd v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 1998 · most notably Staedler v. Staedler (1951), Heuer v. Heuer (1998)
29 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Estin v. Estin · Sherrer v. Sherrer
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exists during coverture unless the wife acquires one elsewhere by the husband's consent, manifested by acquiescence, or abandonment, or by his delictum.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“out of and are connected with the same transaction in which the litigation arose, and are germane to the object of the suit,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.