Lowe v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Smith v. Smith (1999), Maturo v. Maturo (2010)
55 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 In re Disbarment of Johnson · Gozlon-Peretz v. United States · Gozlon-Peretz v. United States · State v. Glover · Kirby v. Planning Board of Review
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Standing focuses on the party seeking to be heard and not on the issues that party wants to have heard. . . . The question of standing does not involve an inquiry into the merits of the case. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The plaintiff did not claim, nor did he demonstrate to the trial court, that the trial court's failure to appoint separate counsel would in any way prejudice his own case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[S]ubject matter jurisdiction can be raised at any time. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.