De Meli v. . De Meli’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
2 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1983 · most notably Vanderbilt v. Vanderbilt (1957), Starbuck v. . Starbuck (1903)
2 district · 79 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 Hunt v. . Hunt · Dupuy v. . Wurtz · Bischoff v. Wethered · Becker v. . Koch · The People v. . Baker
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In legal phraseology residence is synonymous with inhabitancy or domicile. And it is in this sense that the term ‘resident’ is used in the provisions of the •Code before referred to [sections 1756 and 1757], and persons having that relation to this state are its citizens and residents, and for the purposes of the relief like that in view of this action they are subject to the jurisdiction of its courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. Butler
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.