Cheely v. Clayton’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 701 · 1884
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2004 · most notably Hilton v. Guyot (1895), Grannis v. Ordean (1914)
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Galpin v. Page · Hunt v. . Hunt · Cheever v. Wilson · Meister v. Moore · Settlemier v. Sullivan
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a wife is living apart from her husband without sufficient cause, his domicile is in law her domicileand it is “hard to see how, if she unjustifiably refused to live with her husband, * * * she could lawfully acquire in his lifetime a separate domicile in another state,” etc.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The courts of the State of the domicil of the parties doubtless have jurisdiction to decree a divorce, in accordance with its laws, for any cause allowed by those laws, without regard to the place of the marriage, or to that of the commission of the offence for which the divorce is granted; and a divorce so obtained is valid everywhere.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warner v. Warner““The notice and return appearing of record in the proceedings for divorce control the general recital in the decree that due service had been made upon the defendant therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Newman v. Crowls
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.