Grant v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2009
13 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 Shammas v. Shammas · Brown v. Brown · Foxwell v. Foxwell · Simon v. Flowers · Nashua Gummed & Coated Paper Co. v. Noyes Buick Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The safety of society demands that one who seeks to overthrow an apparently valid decree of divorce should proceed with the utmost promptness upon discovery of facts claimed to show its invalidity’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newberry v. Newberry
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.