Freeman v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably McEwen v. Harrison (1961), Ivy v. Carrell (1966)
130 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 Simmons v. Arnim · Cline v. Niblo · State v. Ferguson Kirby · Lancaster v. Lancaster · Harris v. Schlinke
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Judgments are void for lack of power in courts to render them when they are rendered contrary to constitutional or valid statutory prohibition or outside limiting constitutional or statutory authority."”
7 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.