Ecker v. Ecker’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1933
10 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 Brown v. Brown · Saxon v. White · Spitler v. Spitler · Deenis v. Deenis · Pauly v. Pauly
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If plaintiff permitted the court to proceed to judgment without acting upon his motion, he waived his right to have the same acted' upon; and, in the absence of affirmative showing by the record that the same was acted upon adversely to plaintiff, and exceptions taken thereto at the time, this court cannot review the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gernert v. Griffin““That the court is without authority to decree absolutely a certain and specific sum of money, or a certain specific portion of the property, as alimony, but may decree alimony in a. continuous allotment of sums, payable at regular intervals.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Adams
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.