Patterson v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Sutton v. Frazier (1958), 25 Kan. App. 2d 283 - Taylor v. McKune (1998)
30 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 Pulliam v. Pulliam · Hornick v. Union Pacific Railroad · Warner v. Warner · Skaer v. Capsey · Hoopes v. Buford & George Implement Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as valid on at least three important occasions (by remarrying). It is well settled that one who takes the benefit of the decree is estopped thereafter from questioning its validity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . it has been repeatedly held that an imperfect verification, or a lack of verification, does not oust the court of jurisdiction. . . .” (p. 504.)”
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.