Simar v. . Canaday’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently February 1993 · most notably Latham v. Father Divine (1949), The Edward Barron Estate Co. v. the Woodruff Co. (1912)
3 federal appellate · 116 state decisions — followed in 25 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.
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“l,We think that it must be considered as settled in this state, notwithstanding Moore v. Mayor, etc., and some dicta in other cases, that as between a wife and any other than the state or its delegates or agents, exercising the right of eminent domain, an inchoate right of dower in lands is a subsisting and valuable interest, which will be protected and preserved to her, and that she has a right of action to that end.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A wife who executes a mortgage jointly with her husband is nevertheless entitled to dower in the equity of redemption of which her husband is seised, notwithstanding the mortgage, which right is not affected in equity unless she is made a party to the foreclosure. If omitted, she can come in at any time and redeem, notwithstanding a decree and sale in the foreclosure suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The inchoate rights of the wife are as much entitled to protection as the vested rights of the widow.” 2 Wash. Real Prop. (4th Ed.) 173; Davis v. Wetherell, 13 Allen, 63 ; Newhall v. Bank, 101 Mass. 431 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.