Oliver v. . Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1972
20 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“separation as applied to the legal status of husband and wife means . . . a cessation of cohabitation of husband and wife, by mutual agreement,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Byers v. . Byers“if and when the husband and wife have lived separate and apart for two years,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Byers v. . Byers
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.