Dove v. Dove’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2022
16 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 Scherer v. Scherer · Reynolds v. Reynolds · Birch v. Anthony · Blige v. Blige · Sanders v. Colwell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]very marriage contract in writing, made in contemplation of marriage, . . . must be attested by at least two witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lawrence v. Lawrence“marriage contract . . . made in contemplation of marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lawrence v. Lawrence
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.