Tilley v. Tilley’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
November 1982
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. Williams · Stanley v. Cox · Turner v. Turner · Jones v. Lewis · Joyner v. Joyner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“separation agreement is terminated for every purpose, in so far as it remains executory,”
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.