Curley v. Curley’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.2d 730 · 1941
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 1986 · most notably Urquhart v. American-La France Foamite Corp. (1944), Melvin v. Melvin (1942)
22 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 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 John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Davis v. Davis · Peter Lee Atherton v. Mary G Atherton · Pedersen v. Pedersen · Delanoy v. Delanoy
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [T]he public policy of the Distiict of Columbia does not require its courls to take jurisdiction of a matrimonial dispute between two persons who are neither domiciled in the District nor even residents thereof; especially where there is no showing that the welfare of children, rights of property, or other public interests, in the District are in any way affected.””
4 later decisions 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.