Wise v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1954
5 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 Parkison v. Thompson · Hudelson v. Hudelson · Continental Life Insurance v. Yung · Isler v. Bland · Crawford v. Anderson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court is not in as good position to decide who told the truth as was the court below. The question for decision here is: Is there any evidence to support the judgment? This court cannot weigh conflicting evidence in order to set aside the decision of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bitner v. Bitner“The same rule applies in suits in equity for divorce and alimony as in those tried by a jury in an action at law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bitner v. Bitner“No public service would be subserved by a review of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bitner v. Bitner
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.