Silvern v. Silvern’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2002
12 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 Wainwright v. P. H. & F. M. Roots Co. · Groover v. Walker · Reimer v. Firpo · Mace v. O'Reilley · State Ex Rel. Wilson v. Kay
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e express the reservation that the [ Olympic ] decision reaches the extreme length to which the exceptions to the general rule can be pressed.”
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.