Watson v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 49 Cal. 2d 210 - Spellens v. Spellens (1957), 58 Cal. 2d 683 - Self v. Self (1962)
3 federal appellate · 30 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 Krause v. Krause · Rediker v. Rediker · Hunter v. Hunter · Harlan v. Harlan · Peters v. Peters
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.
““The validity of a divorce decree cannot be contested by a party who has procured the decree or a party who has remarried in reliance thereon, or by one who has aided another to procure the decree so that the latter will be free to remarry. ’ ’”
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.