Cody v. Cody’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1994
23 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a party is dissatisfied with the original allowance or distribution of property, or the disposal of the children, he must prosecute a timely appeal to review the court’s orders or decrees in that regard, and in such cases the review must be had upon the evidence adduced upon the original hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Smith“Subsequent changes, or new orders, may be made by the court in respect to the disposal of the children or the distribution of property, as shall be reasonable and proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinsman v. Kinsman
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.