Pendleton v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2004 · most notably Corder v. Corder (1977), State Ex Rel. McClintock v. Black (1980)
25 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 State Ex Rel. Schweitzer v. Greene · Green v. Green · Putnam v. Fanning
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“abdicate its jurisdiction to decide the parties' property rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lfh v. Rlh
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.