Reilly v. Reilly’s Empirical Analysis
182 F.2d 108 · 1950
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 1979 · most notably Wheeler v. Wheeler (1951), Holcomb v. Holcomb (1954)
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Gibbons v. Gibbons · MacLennan v. MacLennan · Camarato v. United States · Novick v. Novick
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this case, agreeably to rule 18(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A., the general equity powers of the court were invoked by joining in a single action prayers for a limited divorce and for adjudication of an existing dispute between the parties concerning property rights. [Cases cited.]””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The [trial] court had jurisdiction under its general equity powers to adjudicate and settle a dispute between the parties concerning their respective rights in funds and property which had been acquired by them during marriage, or incident thereto. [Reilly v. Reilly, 86 U.S. App.D.C. 345, 182 F.2d 108 , cert. denied, 340 U.S. 865 , 71 S.Ct. 90 , 95 L.Ed. 632 (1950) (citations omitted).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hemily v. Hemily
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.