Cramer v. Cramer’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Silesky Ex Rel. Silesky v. Kelman (1968), Boblitz v. Boblitz (1983)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Klein v. Klein · 58 Cal. 2d 683 - Self v. Self · Brown v. Gosser · Smith v. Smith · Kowaleski v. Kowaleski
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Contracts may be made by the wife, and liabilities incurred, and the same enforced by or against her to the same extent and in the same manner as if she were unmarried.” 2”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““All laws which impose or recognize civil disabilities upon a wife which are not imposed or recognized as existing as to the husband are hereby repealed; and for any unjust usurpation of her property or natural rights she shall have the same right to appeal in her own name alone to all courts for redress that her husband has.” (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[TJhe contention that the rule is necessary to maintain conjugal harmony * * ⅜ is illogical and unsound. It would not appear that such assumed conjugal harmony is any more endangered by tort actions than by property actions — yet the latter are permitted. For these reasons alone the old common law rule should be abandoned.”
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.