Powers v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Community Collaborative of Bridgeport, Inc. v. Ganim (1997), Kaplan v. Kaplan (1981)
35 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 Johnson Electrical Co. v. State
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the duty of the judge who tried the case to set forth the basis for his decision.”
2 later decisions 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.