Wolverton v. Wolverton’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 1980 · most notably Rooker v. Bruce (1908), Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad v. Walton (1905)
56 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 Cruzan v. Smith · Gates v. Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. · Weaver v. Apple · Maynard v. Waidlich · Wilson v. Vance
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The next assignment is that the court erred in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial. The only reasons stated in this motion, discussed by counsel for appellant, are that ‘the decision of the court is not sustained by sufficient evidence, and that the decision of the court is contrary to law.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. App v. Class“The term `decision' in the statute necessarily embraces a general finding when the case is tried by the court. It has been held by this court that the term decision, as used in the statute, also includes a special finding, and that the words decision and finding are synonymous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . the reasons stated were sufficient to raise the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the special finding of facts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. App v. Class
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.