Wheeler v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably Smith v. Marshall (1978), Bushway v. Riendeau (1979)
24 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 State of California, Department of Mental Hygiene v. Copus · Daly v. Daly · State of Illinois Ex Rel. Shannon v. Sterling · Ewing v. Mallison · White v. White
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A petition or cross-petition for a divorce, legal separation, or annulment must state whether or not the parties have minor children of the marriage. If there are such children, the court shall make provision for guardianship, custody, support and education of the minor children, and may modify or change any order in this respect, whenever circumstances render such change proper either before or after final judgment in the action.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The principle of res judicata as generally applied, is not relevant to decrees awarding custody and providing for the support of minors. Such decrees become res judicata only as to matters then determined and as of the time the decree was rendered. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Austin v. Austin
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.