Anonymous v. Anonymous’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably Shammas v. Shammas (1952), Schlemm v. Schlemm (1960)
1 district · 27 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Sherrer v. Sherrer · Johnson v. Muelberger · Coe v. Coe · Cook v. Cook · Di Lorenzo v. . Di Lorenzo
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Delaware, marriage is more than a contractual relationship, subject to the ordinary rules of contract law; it is a status, defined and established by law, * * *.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berdikas v. Berdikas
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.