Ackerman v. . Ackerman’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Pasquariello v. Pasquariello (1975), Gair v. Peck (1959)
3 federal appellate · 47 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAckerman v. Ackerman
Relationships
Relies on The Harrisburg · Forbell v. . City of New York · Reining v. . City of Buffalo, Etc. · Hill v. Board of Supervisors · Hayden v. . Pierce
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A married person may maintain an action to procure a judgment ‘divorcing the parties and dissolving the marriage by reason of the defendant’s adultery’ where (among other cases) the parties were married within the state, or the plaintiff was a resident of the state when the offense was committed and is a resident thereof when the action is commenced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. Butler
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.