Early v. Early’s Empirical Analysis
261 F. 1003 · 1919
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Elliott v. Lessee of Peirsol · Brougham v. Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. · Campbell v. Justices of the Superior Court · Vanvabry v. Staton · 24 App. D.C. 160 - Lenoir v. Lenoir
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The section deals only with the weight of the evidence, and means, as construed by this court, that the testimony of one of the parties would not support a decree in his or her favor, unless supported by ‘other evidence.’ Lenoir v. Lenoir, 24 App.D.C. 160 . There is other evidence in this case.””
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.