Pretlow v. Pretlow’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably McFarland v. McFarland (1942), Henderson v. Henderson (1948)
3 federal appellate · 27 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 O'Brien v. Wheelock · Millar v. Millar · Di Lorenzo v. . Di Lorenzo · Maier Hanson v. Hanson · Smith v. Smith
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and the inducement for the gift is the fact of her promise to marry him, if she break off the marriage, he may recover from her the value of such present.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Divorce is the creature of statute; annulment rests within the inherent power of equity, inherited by it from the ecclesiastical courts of England.” Pretlow v. Pretlow, 177 Va. 524, 548-49 , 14 S.E.2d 381, 387 (1941); cf. Heflinger, 136 Va. at 296 , 118 S.E. at 318 (”
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.