Wolfe v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably 60 Cal. 2d 387 - DiMarco v. DiMarco (1963), Di Corpo v. Di Corpo (1948)
44 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 Olivera v. Grace · Lohman v. Lohman · Parker v. Parker · Yager v. Yager · People v. Davis
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by leave of the court, upon motion ... accompanied by an affidavit or affidavits setting forth the reasons for failure to proceed in compliance with the provisions of section 681 of this code. The failure to set forth such reasons as shall, in the discretion of the court, be sufficient, shall be ground for the denial of the motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“limitation statute has uniformly been deemed not to have run against unpaid installments under a judgment until five years after they have become due.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.