State v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2005
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 Sosna v. Iowa · Trammel v. United States · Funk v. United States · Hawkins v. United States · Wolfle v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A decree dissolving a marriage shall not become final or operative until six months after the decree is rendered, except for the purpose of review by appeal.... If no such proceedings have been instituted, the court may, at any time within such six months, vacate or modify its decree..”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Choat v. Choat“During the existence of the marriage, a husband and wife can in no criminal case be a witness against the other. This privilege may be waived only with the consent of both spouses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. Clarke
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.