Cooley v. Cooley’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1978
5 federal appellate · 5 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 Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance v. Hendrick · Ferguson v. Ferguson · Lukshaitis v. Lukshaitis · Kolberg v. Kolberg · Stalker v. Stalker
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The division of property in a suit for divorce is not governed by rigid rules. The Supreme Court does not substitute its judgment as to division of property for that of the trial judge in a suit for divorce in the absence of a clear showing of abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Demay v. Demay““Hereafter every decree of divorce shall determine all rights of the wife in and to the proceeds of any policy or contract of life insurance, endowment or annuity upon the life of the husband in which she was named or designated as beneficiary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Raney v. Raney
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.