Estin v. Estin’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1982 · most notably Estin v. Estin (1948), Lynn v. Lynn (1951)
10 federal appellate · 62 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 Williams v. State of North Carolina · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Esenwein v. Commonwealth ex rel. Esenwein · Krause v. Krause · Livingston v. . Livingston
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have then this situation: The full faith and credit clause commands us to accord recognition to so much of the Nevada decree as pronounced the dissolution of the marriage; and the only remaining question is whether the Nevada decree must also be taken to have cancelled the alimony provision made for the wife through the prior judgment in this New York separation action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodda v. Rodda“is now and since January, 1944, has been a bona fide resident of the State of Nevada.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estin v. Estin“on the ground of three years continual separation, without cohabitation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estin v. Estin
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.