Cooley v. Cooley’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 1 Va. App. 118 - Parra v. Parra (1985), 8 Va. App. 19 - Derby v. Derby (1989)
60 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 Wallihan v. Hughes · Shelton v. Stewart · Capps v. Capps · Cumming v. Cumming · Ryan v. Griffin
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“marital property settlements entered into by competent parties upon valid consideration for lawful purposes are favored in the law and such will be enforced unless their illegality is clear and certain.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conditions and the necessity to separate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bailey v. Bailey
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.