Weld v. Weld’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1969
13 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A separation which is sanctioned and authorized by ' the decree or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction is neither wrongful nor unlawful, and cannot be made a ground for divorce as against the partly rightfully acting under it.” Weld v. Weld, 27 Minn. 330, 331 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gerdts v. Gerdts · Rose v. Rose
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.