Winter v. Dibble’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Grey v. Heckler (1983), Davis v. Califano (1979)
6 federal appellate · 35 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 City of Alton v. Illinois Transportation Co. · Baker v. Scott · Potter v. Clapp · Butler v. Huestis · Daniel v. Whartenby
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the celebration of a marriage is shown and also a prior marriage, the death or divorce of the former spouse will be presumed, and the burden of proof is on the party asserting the invalidity of the last marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grey v. Heckler
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.