Vaughan v. Vaughan’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2011
23 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 Wilkerson v. Wilkerson · Griffin v. Proctor · Martin v. Martin · Sweeney v. Tritsch · Capps v. Norden
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We hold that the respondent below, the appellant here, by not limiting her appearance and by including non jurisdictional as well as jurisdictional grounds in her motion to vacate which, as shown above, was filed long after the expiration of thirty days from the date the original decree was entered, has made a general appearance and has thereby waived any defect or insufficiency of service. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pridgen v. Head
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.