Watts v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 1980 · most notably State Ex Rel. Brown v. Hughes (1940), State Ex Rel. Couplin v. Hostetter (1939)
37 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 Chapman v. Chapman · Clark v. Covenant Mutual Life Insurance · Ecton v. Tomlinson · Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad v. Nortoni · Bayless v. Gibbs
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is claimed that, because the judgment attempting to divest the title to the real estate is void, this court is without jurisdiction of the appeal. The title to real estate is directly affected by the judgment so as to give this court jurisdiction, although the judgment is void on its face. This is the court to determine the question whether the judgment, which in form transfers property from one party to another, has that effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. Reynolds
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.