Gloth v. Gloth’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably Ford v. Ford (1962), Eaton v. Davis (1940)
4 federal appellate · 61 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Emerson v. Emerson · Barnes v. American Fertilizer Co. · Ruge v. Ruge · Southworth v. Treadwell · Wallace v. Wallace
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhether these property rights be fixed by the terms of the decree or by the terms of the contract [the property settlement agreement], the court is without power [under the domestic relations statutes] to divest these property rights because of the changed condition of the parties or the subsequent misconduct of the parties or either of them.”
1 later decision 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.