Key v. Snow’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1952
2 federal appellate · 1 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.
““Since that case the rigid of the wife to sue separately in equiiy has not been debatable. But is this right of separate suit, pending coverture, one against which the siatute of seven years operates? Confessedly she is not barred unless she delay her suit for more than three or seven years after death of her husband. Is she compelled to await the death of her husband to recover possession of her lands, if her husband negligently or willfully permit the seven-year statute to bar the joint action? It would seem that, if the husband cannot deprive her of her right to the possession by his deed, she ought not to be defeated by any negligence of his in failing to sue with her a stranger who has wrongfully disseised her. If this be not so, then we have the strange anomaly that, while the husband, by his deed, cannot defeat her right of possession, yet he may, by his negligence, deprive her during his life of the very estate the statute intended should be protected against his act or the act of' his creditor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“_ “The interest of the husband in the real estate of his wife, acquired by her, either before or after marriage, by gift, devise, descent, or in any other mode, shall not be sold or disposed of by virtue of any judgment, decree or execution against him; nor shall the husband and wife be ejected from or dispossessed of such real estate of the wife by virtue of any such judgment, sentence, or decree; nor shall the husband sell his wife’s real estate during her life without her joining in the conveyance in the manner prescribed by law in which married women shall convey lands.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.