Wilemon v. Wilemon’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1965
12 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That an action for divorce may be maintained against an insane defendant, represented by guardian ad litem, where the acts constituting the ground for divorce were committed by such defendant prior to his becoming insane, is sustained by the highest authority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jordan v. Jordan
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.