Mercer v. Mercer’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1969
13 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 Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Hadden v. The Collector · Daniels v. Daniels · In re probate of the will of Storey · State v. Conkling
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This repealing clause (Law of 1893) is broad and sweeping, repeals all other acts on the subject of divorce and alimony, destroys the right to sue out a writ of error within three years and by necessary intendment deprives this court of jurisdiction to review decrees in divorce suits.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mercer v. Mercer
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.