Howard v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
November 1948
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Musselman v. Musselman · State ex rel. Tolls v. Tolls · Wilhelm v. Wilhelm · Costello v. Costello · McCallister v. McCallister
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a marriage shall be declared void or dissolved, the court shall have power to further decree”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodda v. Rodda
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.