Wightman v. Wightman’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
50
cited by 50 later decisions
13
states following
May 1984
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 1984 · most notably Craig v. Craig (1896), Ex parte Hardy (1880)
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 13 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.