Wheeler v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
188 F.2d 31 · 1951
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably Holcomb v. Holcomb (1954), Jewell R. Mazique v. Edward C. Mazique (1966)
33 federal appellate · 46 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 Reilly v. Reilly · Bray v. Landergren · Richardson v. Richardson · Ring v. Ring
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the wife were found to have some interest, some claim or right, whether legal or equitable, in the property involved, the answer would be at hand: it is settled that in a divorce proceeding the court may adjudicate the property rights of the spouses * * 88 U.S.App.D.C. at 194 , 188 F.2d at 32 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to award the husband's property to the wife in lieu of, or in addition to, the sum of money allowed for her support * * *.”
1 later decision 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.