Vance v. Vance’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2000
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 Hinkle v. Lovelace · Persons v. Griffin
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a statute specifically prescribes who shall make a certain affidavit, it can be made by none other than the person specified, although there is nothing in the language of the statute to show that its designation was intended to be exclusive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But we are not holding that the failure to make the statutory affidavit by the complainant himself or herself will render the subsequent proceedings void, including the decree. We are not stating that the bill should be dismissed for want of jurisdiction, but that the decree will be vacated and the cause remanded, and that it may not be proceeded with further until the required affidavit is made by the complainant personally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be accompanied with an affidavit of plaintiff that it is not filed by collusion with the defendant for the purpose of obtaining a divorce, but that the cause or causes for divorce stated in the complaint are true as stated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.