In Re Sherrill’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1999
23 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 In Re Owen · State Ex Rel. Bolin v. Bruce · State v. Tomasella · In Re Sherill
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The argument that the relator has no right to appear in the courts because of her age is without force for in the articles of the Revised Civil Code relative to emancipation of minors by marriage (379-384) it is provided that ‘The minor, emancipated by marriage, does not need the assistance of a curator in any act or proceeding.’ And there is nowhere in these articles, or any other law that we know of, any restriction placed on a wife’s right to sue her husband for a separation or divorce and for the custody of the children born of their union.””
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.