Willis v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2001 · most notably McDougal v. McDougal (1955), Weiss v. Weiss (1986)
31 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 Kruse v. Kruse · Edwards v. Business Men's Assurance Co. of America · Smith v. Smith · Donati v. Gualdoni · Van Deusen v. Bussmann
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The requirements of this test arc not satisfied by a showing of insane delusions * * *, highstrung nerves, unrestrained impulsiveness and lack of control * * * mental irresponsibility, * * * psychoneurosis * * * a manic-depressive condition * * * or depraved character and licentious disposition even in a person of weak mind Jfc ⅜ ⅜ »”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. V_ D. S v. W_ E. S
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.