Clingerman v. Sadowski’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Drumheller v. Marcello (1987), 423 Pa. Super. 134 - Constitution Bank v. Olson (1993)
8 federal appellate · 51 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 Shapiro v. Shapiro · Beihl v. Martin · Berhalter v. Berhalter · Holmes Estate · Moyer v. PHILLIPS, MD
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unique form of co-ownership grounded in the common law concept that husband and wife were but one legal entity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A violation of the rules by one spouse’s appropriating the property to his own use works a revocation of the estate [by the entireties] by the fiction of appropriation’s being an offer of an agreement to destroy the estate and an acceptance of that offer when the other spouse starts suit; the property is then fit for accounting and division.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The primary object of a suit for divorce is personal, that is, to change the relation of the parties to each other. In the case of the death of either party that object can no longer be achieved, the marital relation having been terminated by death. The divorce action also terminates since the court can no longer decree a divorce between the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.