Spratt v. Spratt’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1985 · most notably Krasnow v. Krasnow (1953), Kaehler v. Kaehler (1945)
33 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 Lake v. . Lake · Stillman v. Stillman · State ex rel. Platzer v. Beardsley · Winchester v. Winchester · Mylius ex rel. Mylius v. Cargill
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * that decrees of divorce are entered in pursuance of and are founded upon the statute, which affords a short and speedy remedy; that the ultimate question is, do the child's interests demand a modification of a former order; that the court is not limited to any particular line of inquiry or bound by strict legal rules of evidence, and its orders and directions are not subject to the tests usually applied to the trial of causes, and that the test to determine the validity of the court's order is, was there an abuse of discretion?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.