Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1964 · most notably Preston v. Preston (1964), Haynes v. Haynes (1949)
27 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 Goff v. Goff · Blankenship v. Blankenship
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the language of the decree above quoted there is nothing to indicate an intention to give the wife a lien upon the husband’s land. The words, ‘that she have no right in the real estate set out in the petition,’ have a contrary tendency.” (p. 491.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the property rights of said parties be settled as per the terms of said stipulation. That plaintiff be barred from any further alimony in or to defendant’s real or personal property. That she 'have no right in the real estate set out in the petition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sims v. Sims
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.