Willoughby v. Willoughby’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 1992
2 district · 22 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 Yakus v. United States · Estin v. Estin · Sherrer v. Sherrer · Reedy v. Reedy · Missionary Baptist State Convention v. Wimberly Chapel Baptist Church
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Obviously the legislature did not pinpoint a specific procedure, no doubt for the reason that if they did so the question might arise in some other procedure than the specific one designated by the statute, in which a bad result would be obtained.” (p. 208.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. King
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.