Stratton v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2001 · most notably 271 So. 2d 7 - Belcher v. Belcher (1972), Edleson v. Edleson (1918)
2 federal appellate · 45 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 Randall v. Randall · Evans v. Evans · Newport Rolling Mill Co. v. Hall · Neddo v. Neddo · Boland v. O'neil, Admr.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . it is beneficial to society that the marital relation should not be disturbed or its happiness marred, but that it should be upheld and encouraged, and that the parties to it should not be led into the breaking of its vows by the allurements of any stipulations which they may enter into before marriage.” Stratton v. Wilson, 170 Ky. 61, 68 , 185 S. W. 522 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fricke v. Fricke““A part of the entire consideration being vicious, the whole contract is void. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. McMillion
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.