Owens v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 8 Va. App. 19 - Derby v. Derby (1989), Creasy v. Hicks Henderson (1970)
2 district · 25 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · McGowan v. Parish · Williams v. Jackson · Steinberg v. New York Life Insurance · United States v. Gage
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts cannot relieve one of the consequences of a contract merely because it was unwise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“personal representative of a decedent holds a position of trust and confidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re: Woodley
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.