Plumley v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably 156 Ill. 2d 76 - Cates v. Cates (1993), Sorensen v. Sorensen (1975)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 24 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.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the interest of the peace of the family and of society, and [was] supported by sound public policy.'”
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.