Bixby v. Bixby’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2018
6 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 Carpenter v. Carpenter · Pope v. Pope · Burke v. Burke · Greer v. Greer · Sheegog v. Incorporated Town of Lindsay
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ 'The question of domicile in an action for.divorce is one of fact, to be determined from the evidence in the case. The controlling fact to be considered is the fact of intention and to determine this fact the trial court, and this court on appeal, may take into consideration all the movements, transactions, and attending circumstances of the party or parties involved in the question””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““The phrase 'actual resident’ and the word ‘resident’ as used in Title 12 O.S. 1951 , § 1272, as amended, contemplate an actual residence with substantially the same attributes as are intended when the word ‘domicile’ is used.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“12 O.S.1971, § 1272: “Either the plaintiff or the defendant in an action for divorce must have been an actual resident, in good faith, of the State, for six months next preceding the filing of the petition.” 12 O.S.1971, § 1272.1: “The venue of actions for divorce, annulment of marriages, and separate maintenance may be in the following counties: “(a) An action for divorce or annulment of a marriage may be brought in the county in which the plaintiff has been a resident for the thirty (30) days immediately preceding the filing of the petition or in the county in which the defendant is a resident.””
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.