Beebe v. Lyle’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1926
5 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 Proctor v. Bigelow · Pratt v. Tefft · May v. Tillman
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The widow of every deceased person shall be entitled to dower, or the use during her natural life of one-third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seised of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage,, unless she is lawfully barred thereof.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.