Chapman v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1982
12 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 Hedtke v. Hedtke · Whiteselle v. Northwestern Mut. Life Ins. Co. · Russell v. Russell · Locke v. Locke · Fain v. Fain
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test is not what fee we would allow if the matter had originally been submitted to us, but what the evidence will justify, viewing it in the light, as we must now do, most favorable to the party who prevailed in the trial court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. Myers
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.