Tolver v. Tolver’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 2009
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bush v. Greer · Heartsill v. Thompson · Cooper v. Cooper · Hanners v. Hanners · Clyburn v. Toney
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to be construed rather strictly so as to confine its operation to [the] legislative purpose, but not so narrowly as to defeat such purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is a restriction on the power to contract”
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.