Owens v. . Owens

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the court was unable to locate a single precedent
• noting that the court was unable to locate a single precedent
• dower allowed under the common law, but case prompted passage of statute. See McMichael v. Proctor, 243 N.C. 479, 91 S.E. 2 d 231, 235 ( Sup. Ct. 1956)
• “[W]hile the law gives the dower, and makes it paramount to the claims of creditors even, there is no provision for its forfeiture for crime, however heinous it may be, and even when the husband is its victim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Carpenter's Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1895-07-18· cited 61×
• Schmidt v. Northern Life Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1900-10-06· cited 59×
• Wall v. Pfanschmidt
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1914-10-16· cited 57×
• McAllister v. Fair
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1906-01-06· cited 57×
• Collins v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1907-12-17· cited 55×
• Eversole v. Eversole
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1916-05-02· cited 50×
• Box v. Lanier
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1903-12-15· cited 50×
• Bird v. Plunkett
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1953-02-17· cited 36×
• Commonwealth, Aplt v. Irland, J (Semi-Auto Pistol)
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-09-21· cited 28×
• Holdom v. Ancient Order of United Workmen
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1895-10-11· cited 19×
• In Re Estate of Duncans
  Washington Supreme Court· 1952-07-24· cited 18×
• Shellenberger v. Ransom
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1891-01-02· cited 18×
• Wellner v. Eckstein
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1908-09-25· cited 18×
• Gallimore v. Washington
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1995-10-23· cited 17×
• Hagan v. Cone
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1917-12-13· cited 17×
• In Re Estate of Kalfus
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1963-12-04· cited 13×
• Duncan v. Schoeffler
  Washington Supreme Court· 1952-07-24· cited 6×
• Deem v. Millikin
  Ohio Circuit Courts· 1892-05-15· cited 5×
• In re Fleming
  New York Supreme Court· 1896-03-15· cited 3×
• Wadsworth v. Siek
  Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court· 1970-01-21· cited 2×