Williamson v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1968 · most notably Susanne De Charette v. St. Matthews B. T. Co. (1926), George v. George (1921)
25 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 Burns v. Burns · Gillen v. Ill. Cent. Ry Co. · Tudor v. Tudor · Davis v. Davis · Hulett v. Hulett
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.
““It would be hard to conceive of treatment that would be more cruel and inhuman by a husband toward a wife than the offer to live with her and give her a home only upon condition that she would get rid of her infant children by a former marriage, whom he knew were entirely dependent upon her when he married her, and agreed she might bring with her to his home.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Paragian v. Paragian
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.