Werle v. Werle’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently July 1981 · most notably Holmes Estate (1964), Stemniski v. Stemniski (1961)
2 federal appellate · 60 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 Madden v. Glosztonyi Savings & Trust Co. · Berhalter v. Berhalter · Pusey's Estate · O'Malley v. O'Malley · Loeffler's Estate
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`power must be exercised in good faith for the mutual benefit of both . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kaufmann v. Kaufmann
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.