Settle v. Settle’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.2d 911 · 1925
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 10 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Fairclaw v. Forrest (1942), Coleman v. Jackson (1960)
23 federal appellate · 10 district · 19 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 Hunt v. Blackburn · Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. O'Connor · Hoag v. Hoag · Moore v. Moore · Fladung v. Rose
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The tenancy by entireties is essentially a joint tenancy, modified by the common-law theory that husband and wife are one person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. David v. Nemerofsky
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.