Foley v. Foley’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably Burtnett v. King (1949), Parker v. Parker (1928)
2 district · 85 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Hovey v. Elliott · Gregory v. Gregory · Golden Gate Consolidated Hydraulic Mining Co. v. Superior Court · Brooks v. Forington · Galland v. Galland
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appeared by his counsel in answer to the order to show cause, and submitted evidence upon the merits of the application, and resisted the same without objection to the want of personal service,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This of itself was sufficient to give the court jurisdiction over him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.