Conway v. Conway’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 1972 · most notably Flannery v. Flannery (1969), Petty v. Petty (1938)
32 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 Durland v. Durland · Noonan v. Noonan · Hipple v. Hipple
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No such power was granted with respect to settlement of property interests, and the omission is tantamount to express denial.” (p. 851.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Drury v. Drury““The parties had entered into contracts relating to property matters which were carried into the judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.