Adler v. Adler’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably People in Interest of CAK (1982), Gebhardt v. Gebhardt (1979)
111 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 Finance Acceptance Company v. Breaux · Gonzales v. Chinn · Van Hise v. Trino · Dubois v. Bowles
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the credibility of witnesses, the sufficiency, probative effect and weight of the evidence, and the inferences and conclusions to be drawn therefrom are all within the province of the trial court, whose conclusions will not be disturbed on review unless so clearly erroneous as to find no support in the record."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We have repeatedly held that in such circumstances the finding of the trial court, if supported by the evidence, will not be disturbed by this Court even though we might have reached a different conclusion had we been the trier of the facts. Moreover, it is also our duty in such cases to search the record for evidence most favorable to the judgment of the trial court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Unless a contemporaneous objection is made to evidence when it is offered, the alleged error will not be reviewed. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Houser v. Eckhardt
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.