Wightman v. Wightman’s Empirical Analysis
1820
Citation profile
48
cited by 48 later decisions
16
states following
February 2014
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Van Voorhis v. . Brintnall (1881), Erkenbrach v. . Erkenbrach (1884)
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
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.