Jacobs v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1998
8 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 the Marriage of Williams · In Re the Marriage of Dawson · Miller v. Miller · In Re the Marriage of Callahan · Eddards v. Suhr
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . the status of children should be quickly fixed and, thereafter, little disturbed.” Jacobs v. Jacobs, Iowa, 216 N.W.2d 312 (1974).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordana v. Corley
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.