Arnold v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1972
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘And it is further ordered and decreed that the said plaintiff shall have, and there is hereby set apart to her as her separate estate, as and for her alimony in said action the following-described real estate [describing it], to be held by the said Annie Greenwood, in trust for Grace and Helen Greenwood until the said Helen Greenwood shall attain her majority, and at the expiration of said time or upon the death of both of said children before said time the title to said property shall vest in the said Annie Greenwood absolutely and in fee.’ ” (Greenwood v. Greenwood, 96 Kan. 591, 592 , 152 Pac. 657 .) “ ‘That the plaintiff be and is hereby divorced from the said defendant and that she do have the complete, absolute and full control of said minor children during their minority, and that the legal title to said above-described homestead real estate be vested in the plaintiff in trust for and to the use and benefit of said children and any that may be hereafter born unto the plaintiff and defendant, or the survivors of them, until the youngest of said children of the survivor shall come to the age of maturity, to be held and used as the home of the plaintiff and the said children until said children or the youngest survivor of them shall come to. his majority; and it is further ordered that said plaintiff do have all of the aforesaid personal property, including all growing crops on said farm, and that plaintiff do have the control of the contract of purchase of said land, a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The language of the decree is clear and leaves no room for construction; it vests the legal title in her as trustee for the use and benefit of the children until the youngest shall come to the age of maturity, to be used as a home for her and her children until that time. The trust, the use and the limitation are clearly stated.” (p. 543.)”
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.