Ecker v. Ecker’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1979
6 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 Sache v. Wallace · Sprague v. Sprague
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This provision is found in the general practice act and applies wherever no different provision is made by some specific statute. Divorce suits are controlled and governed by a specific statute devoted to that particular subject matter; and, in divorce suits, the provisions of this specific statute supersede those of the general practice act insofar as they are inconsistent therewith. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hopping v. Hopping““As against a defendant who does not answer, the relief granted to plaintiff shall not exceed that demanded in the complaint.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hopping v. Hopping
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.