Sachs v. Sachs’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Treasure Salvors, Inc. v. Unidentified Wrecked & Abandoned Sailing Vessel (1978), Korn v. Korn (1968)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Vanderbilt v. Vanderbilt · Adam v. Saenger · House v. Swope · Jacobson v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Granville-Smith v. Granville-Smith
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In an action for the dissolution of the marriage contract or for a legal separation the plaintiff therein must be an inhabitant of the Virgin Islands who is domiciled therein at the commencement of the action and who has resided therein continuously and uninterruptedly for at least six weeks prior thereto, which residence shall be sufficient to give the court jurisdiction without regard to the place where the marriage was solemnized or the cause at action arose. Evidence of the six weeks residence as aforesaid shall be presumptive proof of domicile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gumbs v. Gumbs“... When a party has mistakenly designated a defense as a counterclaim or a counterclaim as a defense, the court on terms, if justice so requires, shall treat the pleading as if there had been a proper designation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sasso v. Hackett
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.