Heyl v. Heyl’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Word v. Motorola, Inc. (1983), Tavares v. Horstman (1975)
30 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 Terminal Freight Handling Co. v. Solien · Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. · Alcala v. State · Laughton v. Laughton · Lonabaugh v. Lonabaugh
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has heretofore recognized the importance of the finality of a divorce judgment, Rubeling v. Rubeling, Wyo., 406 P.2d 283, 284 [1965], Especially is this true in divorce cases when the emotional involvement of the parties tends to magnify the importance of all matters in connection therewith.”
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.