Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1984
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Eaton v. Davis · Heflin v. Heflin · Bray v. Landergren · White v. White · McCotter v. Carle
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon decreeing the dissolution of a marriage, and also upon decreeing a divorce, whether from the bond of matrimony or from bed and board, and upon decreeing that neither party is entitled to a divorce the court may make such further decree as it shall deem expedient concerning the estate and the maintenance of the parties, or either of them, and the care, custody and maintenance of their minor children, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Smith“However broad an interpretation may be placed upon the 'estate of the parties,' it is clear that, when a divorce is not decreed, the power of the court to consider in any respect the estates or property rights of the parties, whether between themselves or otherwise is nonexistent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. Smith
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.