Spencer v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
2
states following
December 1998
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Murphy v. Murphy · Stewart v. Stewart · Soles v. Soles · Smith v. Smith · Styka v. Styka
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Having examined the voluminous testimony with great care we are unable to say that Judge Mathias’ decision was clearly erroneous, although we might well have reached a different result had we been the trier of facts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Silseth v. Levang
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.