Yost v. Yost’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1979 · most notably 157 Ind. App. 385 - Farley v. Farley (1973), Gallup v. Schmidt (1900)
34 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 Davis v. Davis · Musselman v. Musselman · Hedrick v. Hedrick · Harrell v. Harrell · Ifert v. Ifert
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not think, under the facts, and within the meaning and spirit of the law, it was ‘just and proper’ for the court, upon decreeing a divorce to appellant on account of the wrongs of appellee, to bid her depart from the forum of justice with the small amount in controversy as the sum total to be allowed in her favor.””
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.