Butler v. Bolinger’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 1987 · most notably Daigre v. Daigre (1956), Pennison v. Pennison (1966)
29 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 Sarah Fall v. Elizabeth Eastin · Pereira v. Pereira · Massie v. Watts · Hart v. Sansom · Brown v. Brown
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The validity of a judgment of another state where it operates on property within that state will not be inquired into by the courts of this state, but its extraterritorial effect on rights to immovables in this state will not be tolerated."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“After the dissolution, husband and wife are tenants in common or joint owners of the property located in Louisiana, and the wife has the legal right to sell her undivided one-half of the property, as was done in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.