Patterson v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2004
18 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 Milliken v. Meyer · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Williams v. State of North Carolina · John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Adam v. Saenger
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question of domicile is a mixed question of law and fact, and is ordinarily one for a jury [cits.], and should not be determined by the court as a matter of law except in plain and palpable cases. [Cits.]” Patterson v. Patterson, 208 Ga. 7, 13 ( 64 SE2d 441 ); Williams v. Williams, 226 Ga. 734, 736 ( 177 SE2d 481 ). In a suit for divorce, where the filing of an answer is not mandatory (Code Ann. § 30-113), an”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trulove v. Trulove“The trial court in this case was under a duty to accord prima facie validity to the [foreign] decree. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.