Heflinger v. Heflinger’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Goodloe v. Hawk (1940), Simmons v. Simmons (1927)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 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 McMullen v. Hoffman · Christmas v. Russell · Cheever v. Wilson · Van Voorhis v. . Brintnall · Commonwealth v. Lane
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the dissolution of the bond of matrimony for any cause arising subsequent to the date of the marriage, neither party shall be permitted to marry again for six months from the date of such decree, and such bond of matrimony shall not be deemed to be dissolved as to any marriage subsequent to such decree, or in any prosecution on account thereof, until the expiration of such six months.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simpson v. Simpson
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.