Bigham v. Bigham’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Curlee v. Howle (1982), Davis v. Davis (2006)
27 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 Mixson v. Mixson · Ex Parte Jeter · Long v. McMILLAN · Edwards v. Edwards · Bigham v. Bigham
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Contempt results from the willful disobedience of an order of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stoney v. Stoney
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.