Thomas v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2012
11 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 Durant v. Snyder · Little v. Bergdahl Oil Co. · Hancock v. Elkington · Shepherd v. Dougan · Childs v. Reed
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the long established law of this state that a contract to convey community real property which is not signed and acknowledged by both husband and wife is void. Childs v. Reed, 34 Idaho 450 , 202 P. 685 ; McKinney v. Merritt, 35 Idaho 600 , 208 P. 244 ; Hart v. Turner, 39 Idaho 50 , 226 P. 282 ; Elliott v. Craig, 45 Idaho 15 , 260 P. 433 ; Burnham v. Henderson, 47 Idaho 687 , 278 P. 221 ; Shepherd v. Dougan, 58 Idaho 543 , 76 P.2d 442 ; Intermountain Realty Co. v. Allen, 60 Idaho 228 , 90 P.2d 704 , 122 A.L.R. 647 ; Little v. Bergdahl Oil Co., 60 Idaho 662 , 95 P.2d 833 ; Durant v. Snyder, 65 Idaho 678 , 151 P.2d 776 ; Hancock v. Elkington, 67 Idaho 542 , 186 P.2d 494 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fuchs v. Lloyd
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.