Collins v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably Trossbach v. Trossbach (1945), Kerwin v. Donaghy (1945)
44 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Feigley v. Feigley · Rabbitt v. Gaither · Larmon v. Knight · Dunnock v. Dunnock · Swaine v. Perine
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more broadly than to protect the wife against a voluntary conveyance by the husband of all his estate, made on the eve of marriage, without her knowledge, and with the intent of defeating her marital right.”
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.