Emery v. Emery’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 1983 · most notably Sharp v. Sharp (1941), Hayn v. Hayn (1946)
2 district · 26 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 Rodgers v. Rodgers · Equitable Investment Trust Co. v. Board of County Commissioners · Doscher v. Blackiston
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a divorce is granted the court shall make provision for the guardianship, custody, support and education of the minor children of the marriage, and may modify or change any order in this respect whenever circumstances render such change proper.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hayn v. Hayn““Whatever power the district court has in a divorce suit to afford protection to the children of the parties is derived from the statute quoted, and is limited to making provision for their support and education during their minority.” ' (p. 682.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Melton v. Every
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.