Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1970
7 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the case would be such that both that state (Indiana) and this had authority in respect to the marriage relation, to determine upon its validity, or to dissolve it, so far as the party resident within its own limits is concerned. If one proceeds first, there is no legal impediment to the other’s taking like steps afterwards, if it appears important to the protection of any property or other rights.” (Par. ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Our Legislature has thought in some cases it might be necessary to do so, and has provided for «it by statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.