Ostrander v. Ostrander’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Worthley v. Worthley (1955), German v. German (1936)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ Such a suit in a court of this state is not a suit for divorce or separation, and the judgment here is for the recovery of an indebtedness established by the foreign judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shibley v. Shibley
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.