Oliver v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
185 F.2d 429 · 1950
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 1989 · most notably Eastern Airlines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board (1950), Scott v. Scott (1951)
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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 Scott Paper Co. v. Marcalus Manufacturing Co. · Loughran v. Loughran · Goodloe v. Hawk · Ruppert v. Ruppert · United States v. Snyder
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It imposes no personal prohibition or restriction against future marriage by either party to a divorce. It deals only with divorce as such, and declares that no decree therefor ‘shall be absolute and take effect until the expiration of six months after its date.’ This contemplates a provisional decree of divorce only, which cannot mature and become effective until lapse of the intervening time.” Oliver v. Oliver, 1950, 87 U.S.App.D.C. 334 , 336, 185 F.2d 429 , 431.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No final decree annulling or dissolving a marriage shall be effective to annul or dissolve the marriage until the expiration of the time allowed for taking an appeal, nor until the final disposition of any appeal taken, and every final decree shall expressly so recite. Every decree for absolute divorce shall contain the date thereof and no such final decree shall be absolute and take effect until the expiration of six months after its date.” D.C.Code 1951, § 16-421.”
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.