Arnold v. Keil’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1996
9 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 Schlesinger v. Keifer · Hudson v. King Bros. · Von Platen v. Krueger · Myers v. Field · Hoyle v. Warfield
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At common law the wife could bind the husband for necessaries only as express authority was given her, or as authority could be implied from the husband’s neglect to furnish articles suitable to her station in life, which said articles were considered and treated in law as necessaries. ‘Family expenses,’ under the statute, embrace much more than ‘necessaries’ under the common law. [Citations.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.