Bubar v. Plant’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably Strater v. Strater (1963), Smith v. Smith (1980)
32 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is against public policy in the ordinary case for one man to be supporting the wife of another who has himself assumed the legal obligation for her support. (emphasis supplied)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * The first husband is under no obligation to support her as another man’s wife in the same status as she lived as a single woman. Bubar v. Plant, supra, 44 A.2d at 734 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nugent v. Nugent
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.