Esteb v. Esteb’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2012 · most notably Yarborough v. Yarborough (1933), 550 So. 2d 986 - Ex Parte Bayliss (1989)
54 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I am ready to somewhat reluctantly yield to the amount of the award viewing the needs of the child apart from her claimed educational necessities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackman v. Short
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.