Wesley v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
196 F.2d 859 · 1952
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
December 1963
most recently cited
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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Relies on Oliver v. Oliver
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Oliver v. Oliver, 1950, 87 U. S.App.D.C. 334, 185 F.2d 429 , 431 this court dealt with the very question of finality of a divorce decree and ruled that Section 16-421 ‘ * * contemplates a provisional decree of divorce only, which cannot mature and become effective until lapse of the intervening time’ and that therefore the parties do not cease to be married until after the period provided.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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