Swift v. Swift’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2003
22 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 Goodloe v. Hawk · Saul v. Saul · Jennings v. Schmitz · Hopping v. Hopping · Copeland v. Voge
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There remains the question whether, as plaintiff contends, defendant's attack upon the decree is barred by laches or estoppel. This presents only a question of law. On this issue there are no disputed facts. If the trial court's conclusion on this issue is erroneous, of course there must - be a reversal. It is not questioned, nor can it be, that a party against whom a void decree of divorce is granted may be barred by laches or estoppel .from attacking it. We have so held several times, (cases cited) * * * We hold here defendant is precluded by laches, estoppel and lack of good faith from challenging this decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brockel v. Brockel
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.