Jarrett v. Jarrett’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1985 · most notably 109 Ill. 2d 202 - Fredman Bros. Furniture Co. v. Department of Revenue (1985), Judd v. Van Horn (1954)
25 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 Barry v. Sparks · Stone v. Duffy · Leclerc v. Leclerc · 70 Cal. App. 1 - In Re Deleon · Lucchesi v. Lucchesi
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court which entered the decree in this case had jurisdiction of the subject matter, the custody of the child, whether the case in which it exercised that jurisdiction bore the title of the divorce case or the caption of an independent habeas corpus proceeding. [Citing cases] * * * Like the Kansas court, we are inclined to feel that ‘The form of the proceeding is not very material’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parks v. Parks
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.