Summers v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1963
2 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * But, in the absence of satisfactory evidence, in the form of affidavit or otherwise, that the condition of the parties has not changed since the judgment of divorce was entered, the court should not, even during the term, set aside a judgment granting -an absolute divorce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garrison v. Garrison
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.