Reed v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1999
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 Lingner v. Lingner · 28 Tenn. App. 79 - Plantt v. Plantt · Stephens v. City of Great Falls · Ratcliffe v. Ratcliffe · 101 Cal. App. 736 - Greenwood v. Greenwood
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Contrary to the rule governing divorce actions in some jurisdictions, that absolute divorce may be decreed though the plaintiff ask only for a divorce from bed and board, if a wife, not desiring a divorce, proceeds for separate maintenance the court may not decree a divorce, but is bound to decree separate maintenance only. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindeman v. Lindeman““* * * The general rule of statutory construction is applicable, it being that where there is an express mention of certain authority, the mentioning of it implies the exclusion of any other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such authority has not been committed to us.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re MPM
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.