Bobbitt v. Bobbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1967
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 Kelly v. Kelly · Hertel v. Hertel · Littleton v. Littleton · Kreiger v. Kreiger · Bobbitt v. Bobbitt
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case of Kelly v. Kelly, 183 Ky. 172, 576 , 209 S.W. 335 ,. we denied a request of the wife’s attorneys to extend our opinion, fix the amount of their fee for services rendered, her in this Court, and give the Circuit Court proper directions regarding it, remarking that it was a matter about which the Circuit Court had never adjudicated, and that this Court upon such a subject was a court of review.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Maynard v. Maynard““Nothing herein- contained is to be construed as a denial of the right of the parties. affected to move the Circuit Court, upon the filing of the mandate disposing of the appeal, to grant the relief sought by the present motion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Maynard v. Maynard
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.