Wharton v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1986
18 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 Cizek v. Cizek · Norton v. Brink · Beard v. Beard · Dryden v. Parrotte · Cizek v. Cizek
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[J]urisdiction of the court in matters relating to divorce and alimony is given by statute, and every power exercised by the court in reference thereto must look to the statute or it does not exist. [Citation omitted.] We cannot change it; we must therefore take the decree as we find it, inasmuch as the interested parties have máde no move to change it but have treated it as final.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Neujahr v. Neujahr
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.