Lyons v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably Morgan v. Biro Manufacturing Co. (1984), Boblitz v. Boblitz (1983)
31 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 Wisconsin v. Illinois · Klein v. Klein · Jessie Thompson v. Charles N Thompson · 48 Ohio St. 613 - Kerper v. Wood · Brown v. Gosser
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A spouse may not maintain an action against the other spouse for personal injuries resulting from the negligence of the other spouse where the married parties are living together as husband and wife at the time of the alleged injury.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Markley v. Closson
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.