Wonneman v. Wonneman’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1972
8 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 Reed v. Bright · Wonneman v. Wonneman · Libbe v. Libbe · 226 Mo. App. 78 - Glass v. Glass
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * wishes to engage in litigation with respect to matters connected with his divorce and incidents thereto he should be prepared to pay the expenses thereof which the law has cast upon him. He cannot escape that liability as long as he has sufficient means, eithex- by way of income or property, out of which it can be satisfied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gross v. Gross
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.