Wren v. Stutts’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2015
22 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 White v. White · Padgett v. Padgett · Ogle v. Ogle
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In proceedings of this character after the decree of divorcement; the party seeking a change must allege and show some change of conditions or other substantial reason for modification of the previous decree. The former decree is conclusive of the interests of the child and the rights of the parents, so long as their status at the time of the decree remains without material change.” Wren v. Stutts, 258 Ala. 421, 422 , 63 So.2d 370, 371 ; Ex parte Sharp, 259 Ala. 652 , 68 So.2d 545 ; Sparks v. Sparks, 249 Ala. 352 , 31 So. 2d 313 ; Messick v. Messick, ante, p. 142, 73 So.2d 547 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alexander v. Davis
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.