Holt v. Agnew’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1977 · most notably Beals ex rel. Walker v. Ares (1919), Whitesell v. Strickler (1906)
1 district · 25 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 Juzan v. Toulmin · Demarest v. Wynkoop · Lee v. Lee · Waddell v. Lanier · Johnson v. Johnson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"By the common law, husband and wife were regarded as but one person, for many purposes. The legal existence of the wife was lost, or, as most often expressed, merged in that of the husband. She was without capacity to contract, and had not the administration of her property. By the marriage, if she was seized of an estate of inheritance, the husband became seized thereof, taking the rents and profits during their joint lives, and, by possibility, during his life. . . . Her chattels real passed to the husband, who had power to sell, assign, or make other disposition of them, at pleasure. . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“". . . For twenty years before the present provision was introduced into the constitution, the statutes had enlarged the capacity of married women to take and hold property, and had abrogated the common law rights of the husband to the estate, real or personal, of the wife. The purpose of the constitution was the prevention by legislative enactment of a restoration of the common law, and the preservation of the enlarged capacity of the wife. . . ." ( 67 Ala. at 365 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““And so in cases of surprise, of sudden action without due deliberation, if there is great inequality of consideration in the transaction, and advantage is taken of the circumstances which mislead, confuse or disturb the reason and judgment, the court will intervene.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pilcher v. Surles
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.