Putnam v. Putnam’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably 383 Pa. Super. 177 - Milne v. Milne (1989), 59 Ill. App. 3d 457 - Cooper v. Cooper (1978)
30 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is shown that said minor is sixteen years of age, unusually keen, has made an exceptional record in high school, prefers to live with her mother, and does not intend to go into the custody of her father for two months as required by the decree of the Chancellor. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“otherwise, all decrees will be objects to flout rather than to obey.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.