239 Mo. App. 1000 - Gooding v. Gooding’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1984
19 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 Williams v. Land · Stansbury v. Stansbury · 239 Mo. App. 655 - Pike v. Pike · Cheatham v. Cheatham · Amerland v. Amerland
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * there is one objection which has been made, disconnected with the insufficiency of the charge, which we think sufficient of itself to sustain the demurrer. It is not stated in the petition that the complainant has resided within the State one whole year next before the filing of the bill, nor does it allege that the offense complained of was committed within this State, or whilst one or both of the parties resided within this State. One or other of these statements is made essential by the 4th section of the statute, to give jurisdiction to the court. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eames v. Eames““Where petition for divorce failed to allege that plaintiff had resided within state one whole year next before filing petition, or that offenses complained of were committed within state while one or both of the parties resided therein, trial court had no jurisdiction over subject matter of action and judgment granting divorce must be reversed, even though the evidence established necessary jurisdictional facts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eames v. Eames““No person shall be entitled to a divorce from the bonds of matrimony who has not resided within the state one whole year next before filing of the petition, unless the offense or injury complained of was committed within this state, * * * ff”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eames v. Eames
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.