Womack v. Womack’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 1996 · most notably Parker v. Sims (1932), Rankin v. Schofield (1905)
50 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 Cate v. Cate · Reed v. Reed · Chambliss v. Reppy · Ward v. Estate of Ward · Trimble v. Trimble
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Conceding that Womack purchased the land, and paid for it, and had the title taken in name of his wife, it was absolutely her property. Mf a husband purchases property, and has it conveyed to his wife, or expends money in improving her property, the advances will be presumed to be gifts.’ ”,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayers v. Lark
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.