Rouse v. Rouse’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1965
14 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 Busenbark v. Busenbark · Jenness v. Cutler · Sutherland v. Sutherland · Helm v. Helm · Kistler v. Ernst
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have frequently held that agreements of this character should be liberally construed to carry into effect the intention and purpose of the parties; nevertheless, their terms are not to be extended by mere implication to exclude the right of the survivor to take by inheritance. . . . “While we are not prepared to say that an express provision must always appear in order to deprive the survivor of the rights of inheritance, there are authorities which go to that extent.” (pp. 317, 318.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marty v. Marty · McVicar v. McVicar““ . , . to dispose of his property by will or otherwise cannot by implication be said to mean that, in the event he failed to exercise such option, the laws of inheritance should be set aside and the wife be left in the same situation as though he had exercised the option.” (p. 318.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bemarkt v. Prouty““While we are not prepared to say that an express provision must always appear in order to deprive the survivor of the rights of inheritance, there are authorities which go to that extent.” ( 76 Kan. 318 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Casey v. Casey
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.