Whitney v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Burger v. Burger (1964), Whitney v. Whitney (1944)
26 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 Mantz v. Gill · Fisher v. Fisher · Haile v. Hale · Mitchell v. Fish · Krauter v. Krauter
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]olygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. BROWN v. ALLEY · BROWN v. ALLEY““We are of the opinion that when it conclusively appears, as herein, or is adjudged on competent evidence that the relation of husband and wife never existed legally, the statutory power to adjust property rights, 12 O.S.1941 § 1278, has no application, but that the power to adjust such rights is equitable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DuVall v. DuVall
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.