Arthur v. Arthur’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1998
18 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 District of Columbia's Appeal · Eldridge v. Eldridge · Mitchell v. Kinney · Butler v. Guaranty Savings & Loan Ass'n · Gardner v. Gardner
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I charge you that the presumption of legitimacy is one of the highest known to the law and not to be overcome except upon the highest proof.””
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.