Wick v. Wick’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably McKrell v. McKrell (1945), 157 Pa. Super. 582 - Smith v. Smith (1944)
64 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 Esenwein v. Esenwein · Richards v. Richards · 141 Pa. Super. 344 - Dearth v. Dearth · 148 Pa. Super. 439 - Lowe v. Lowe · 112 Pa. Super. 332 - Manzi v. Manzi
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When witnesses who are competent and equally interested, flatly contradict each other, the conclusion of the judge who heard them, as to which is to be believed, is not to be lightly disturbed.””
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.