Wick v. Wick’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably 3 Cal. 3d 914 - Gibson v. Gibson (1971), Goller v. White (1963)
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions — followed in 24 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 Hewlett v. George · Roller v. Roller · Wait v. Pierce · McKelvey v. McKelvey · Small Ex Rel. Balthis v. Morrison
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““we find ourselves thoroughly in accord with courts holding that an action of this kind cannot be maintained and indorse the doctrine as one founded in a most wise and wholesome public policy”—”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.