Wacker v. Wacker’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1973 · most notably Sowders v. Sowders (1941), McGuire v. McGuire (1962)
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 Cohn v. Scott · Corrie v. Corrie · Skidmore v. Skidmore · Rietmann v. Rietmann · Campbell v. Campbell
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the Chancellor might decide partly on an investigation made outside of Court then he might decide wholly on such investigation, the only difference between the two cases being not in kind, but in degree. No agreement between counsel can bind the minor, whose interest is the main question to be considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGuire v. McGuire
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.