Creyts v. Creyts’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably Gardine v. Cottey (1950), Blades v. Szatai (1927)
25 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. Miller · Seibly v. Person · Creyts v. Creyts · Smith v. Waalkes
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * These cases necessarily imply the authority to retain jurisdiction of the property of the husband in a divorce case after the death of the husband, to see that it be applied to the support of the wife and infant children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garber v. Robitshek
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.