Deeble v. Alerton’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1974
16 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 Claypool v. Jaqua · Wilson v. Wilson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a right that cannot be waived by presumption, assumption or construction. If it may be waived at all, it must be in terms that do not admit of doubt. In the absence of such a waiver, where the relationship of widow exists, the right is corresponding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . neither party shall or will at any time hereafter claim or demand from the other any money, . . . stock in trade or any property whatever, which either now hath or may hereafter procure, or which may be devised or otherwise acquired by either; ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is a first charge upon estates, and so made to provide for the comfort and sustenance of the widow and children, pending administration and before distribution. It therefore cannot be a part of that which is to be distributed.””
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.