Ritzer v. Ritzer’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1976
9 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 Geddes v. Anaconda Copper Mining Co. · Lodge v. Twell · Dainese v. Kendall · Lewis v. Campau · Bialy v. Bialy
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When any decree of divorce is hereafter granted in any of the courts of this State, it shall be the duty of the court granting such decree to include in it a provision in lieu of the dower of the wife in the property of the husband, and such provision shall be in full satisfaction of all claims that the wife may have in any property which the husband owns or may hereafter own, or in which he may have any interest. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The object and purpose of the statute of 1909 (Act No. 259, Pub. Acts 1909) was to make it mandatory for the trial court to dispose of the matters of divorce, alimony, and property together.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Braffett v. Braffett“The power to award alimony is wholly statutory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.