Clinton v. Clinton’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 1977 · most notably Trautmann v. Trautmann (1923), Bank of Willow Springs v. Lillibridge (1927)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Tygard v. Falor · Dinsmoor v. Bressler · Estate of Huffman v. Huffman · Gordon v. Eans · 71 Mo. App. 399 - Hoehn v. Struttmann
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be seen from the foregoing summary of statutes and cases that the adjudications in other jurisdictions can lend little assistance in the attempt to ascertain the object and effect of our statutes, in consequence of the wider scope of the procedure these provide and the use of materially different language — language suggestive of an intention to create a new method of both discovery and recovery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if convicted, the court shall compel the delivery of the property detained by attachment of his person for contempt, and the court shall commit him to jail until he comply with the order of the court”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Hutton
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.