Multer v. Multer’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 425 So. 2d 415 - First Ala. Bank of Montgomery, NA v. Martin (1983), In Re Sullivan (1969)
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 Hartigan v. Hartigan · Levine v. Levine · Gayle v. Pennington · Woods v. Sanders · Merrill v. Merrill
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.
“`[l]aches is not fixed by a hard and fast limit of time, but is a principle of good conscience dependent on the facts of each case.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““That case is not authority for the proposition that all divorces will be set aside on the ground of ‘no jurisdiction.’ . . . Other factors will be considered, such as . the diligence of such party. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. Bailey
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.