Wilcox v. Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2014
13 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 Sharp v. Sharp · West v. West · Miller v. Miller · Willbrook v. Worten · Spradling v. Spradling
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the rule that the courts of one state are without jurisdiction to render decrees directly affecting the title to lands in another state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A divorce granted at the instance of one party shall operate as a dissolution of the marriage contract as to both, and shall be a bar to any claim of either party in or to the property of the other, except in cases where actual fraud shall have been committed by or on behalf of the successful party.” (emphasis ours).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shipp v. Shipp
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.