Tomlinson v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1928
21 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 Hamilton v. Hamilton · Wortman v. Price · Patten v. Patten · Patrick v. Patrick · VanDorn v. Leeper
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ 1st. The husband may prefer the wife (she being a creditor) to other creditors, provided the preference is based upon a valuable consideration, and is made in good faith. “ 2d. As to the property of the wife, protected as her separate property by the statutes in force in reference thereto, the husband occupies the .same relation as over a stranger. She may sell it or loan it to him, or constitute him her agent for its management and disposition; but a gift of it by her to him will not be presumed in the absence of proof to that effect.””
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.