Poole v. Poole’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Where the transfer or gift is merely colorable and there is a voluntary transfer or conveyance by which the husband reserves to himself an interest in or a power to dispose of the property, it may be declared void as against the widow and she may participate in its distribution upon the theory that the title still remained in the husband. (Small v. Small, supra; Padfield v. Padfield et al., supra; Thayer v. Thayer et al., 14 Vt. 107 ; Cameron v. Cameron et al., 10 Smed & M. (18 Miss.) 394, 48 Am. Dec. 759 ; Lightfoot’s Executors and others v. Colgin and Wife, 5 Munf. (Va.) 42; Stewart v. Stewart, 5 Conn. 317 ; Dunnock v. Dunncok, 3 Md. Ch. 140 ; Jones v. Somerville, 78 Miss. 269 , 28 South. 940 , 84 Am. St. Rep. 627 .)””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ackers v. First National Bank of Topeka

2. ““The general rule is that the law has placed no restriction or limitation on the husband’s right to make such disposition of his personal property during his lifetime as he may elect.” (Poole v. Poole, 96 Kan. 84 , syl. ¶ 1, 150 Pac. 592 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Osborn v. Osborn