Van Ness v. . Ransom’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 1982 · most notably Sleicher v. Sleicher (1929), Fields v. Fields (1939)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 Wetmore v. Markoe · Romaine v. . Chauncey · McIlroy v. McIlroy · Carr v. . Rischer · Gerrein's Admr. v. Michie
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To hold otherwise would be to defeat the object of the law and seriously impair the value of the decree in the wife’s favor by depriving her of the credit which she would have to obtain means of support.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heaton v. Davis
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.