Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1988 · most notably Hooke v. Hooke (1946), Farrell v. Farrell (1942)
33 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 Lynde v. . Lynde · Kinnier v. . Kinnier · Evans v. Wilhite · Gerald v. City of Boston · Wood v. Wood
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor is there any reason why the defendant, in an action for divorce, cannot waive service of process upon him, subject to the right of the court, as in other cases, to dismiss the action where collusion between the parties appears.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fuller v. Fuller
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.