Smith v. Abair’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The statutes of the State have made no change in the common-law rule that the obligation to furnish the wife with her wearing apparel, the same as in the case of a man with minor children, is imposed upon the husband still, and, as in the case of a man with minor children, the wearing apparel belongs to the husband, as between himself and a third person who undertakes to remove it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mains v. Webber's Estate

2. ““ The statute of distribution of estates of intestates, re-enacted since the married woman’s act, provides that the widow shall be allowed all her articles of apparel and ornaments. This would indicate that, without such a provision, these articles would constitute a part of decedent’s estate, and would be liable, as such, to be sold for the payment of his debts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mains v. Webber's Estate

3. “The husband “may insure it as his own property; * * * [and] the purchase of the property for her use is no more a gift to her than is the purchase of apparel for a minor child such a gift to that child as would devest the parent of a right to recover it from a third person.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mains v. Webber's Estate