Drummond v. Drummond’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Drummond v. Drummond (1964), 229 Pa. Super. 428 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Roviello v. Roviello (1974)
40 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 Witney v. Lebanon City · Cohn v. Weiss Et Ux. · Jones v. Jones · Boudwin v. Boudwin · De Luca v. De Luca
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The test of jurisdiction is the competency of the court to determine controversies of the general class involved, and whether the court had power to enter upon the inquiry, not whether it might ultimately decide that it could not give relief in the particular case."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“as in other actions, at law or in equity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grimes v. Grimes
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.