Artman v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 1940
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 Haas v. Shaw · De Vries v. Conklin · Bassett v. Shepardson · Bowker v. Bradford · Edwards v. McEnhill
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The important and sacred relations between man and wife, which lie at the very foundation of civilized society, are not to be disturbed and destroyed by contentions which may arise from such a community of property, and a joint power of disposal, and a mutual liability for the ■contracts and obligations of each other.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Root v. Root · Caldwell v. Jones““Even in those states in which she may embark in another partnership, and though she holds herself out as such partner, and her means give credit to the firm, she is held not liable for the debts, as she cannot, by acts or declarations, remove her own disabilities;" citing cases.”
1 later decision 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.