Webb v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Howell (2000), 110 Wash. 2d 520 - Standard Insurance Co. v. Schwalbe (1988)
7 federal appellate · 21 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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court, under its general powers, may order a return to the status quo. . . . Transfers of property in violation of an injunction are invalid and may be set aside by the party to a divorce suit, and subsequent death of the injunction violator does not prevent the court from exercising such power.”
4 later decisions 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.