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← 54 Del. 400 - Warner v. Warner

Warner v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis

1962

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 1977
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Gaines v. Jacobsen

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““In connection with the marital status of the parties an annulment decree is a judicial declaration that the marriage never had a legal existence.””
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “was a fiction which is sometimes ignored for the”
    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.