Messersmith v. Messersmith’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
181
cited by 181 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
8
states following
August 2016
most recently cited
10 federal appellate · 161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably United States v. Mitchell (1971), 358 So. 2d 919 - Sims v. Sims (1978)
10 federal appellate · 161 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.
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.