Barclay v. Barclay’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 1990 · most notably Audubon v. Shufeldt (1901), 45 Ill. 2d 405 - Kazubowski v. Kazubowski (1970)
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Wightman v. Wightman · Carlton v. Carlton · Allen v. Allen · State v. Hattabough
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An attempt to do so by such other court would bring about a conflict of authority, and a condition of chaos with reference to questions of this character, because no other court would have before it the facts with reference to such change in conditions and as to such original right of the parties.””
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.