Axton v. Axton’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 1955 · most notably Mirizio v. Mirizio (1926), Axton v. Vance (1925)
23 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 Evans v. Evans · Wesley v. Wesley · McQuinn v. McQuinn · Schaeffer v. Vogt's Trustee
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case could and should have been prepared in not exceeding five hundred pages of record instead of more than twenty-one hundred pages, as now made up.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Axton v. Vance
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.