Small v. Small’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1977
20 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 Tyler v. Tyler · State v. McGarry · Draper v. Draper · Dunnock v. Dunnock · Busenbark v. Busenbark
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no doubt of the power of a husband to dispose absolutely of his property during his life, independently of the concurrence and exonerated from the claim of his wife, provided the transaction is not merely colorable, and be unattended with circumstances indicative of fraud upon the rights of the wife. If the disposition of the husband be bona fide, and no right is reserved to him, though made to defeat the right of the wife, it will be good against her.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““To hold that a feme covert has a vested interest in her husband’s personal estate, that he is unable to divest in his lifetime, would be disastrous in the extreme to trade and commerce.” (p. 20.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poole v. Poole““Of course, the sale or gift must be absolute and bona fide, and not colorable only. And if the sale or gift would bind the grantor, it would bind his heirs.” (p. 522.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poole v. Poole
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.