Whitehead v. Tapp’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1918
7 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 Brown v. Brown's Administrator
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Anterior to the date of obtaining the divorce from the first wife, it was perfectly within Arnes’ power to forgive her shortcomings and condone her roving fancy, and the mere fact that this never occurred did not alter the status of the parties inter sese. Arnes was still a married man, and consequently the head of a family. Being so, evidence that improper relations were maintained between Arnes and the woman who lived in the same house with him was irrelevant, and properly rejected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. Mayne
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.