Everett v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1939
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ In this case the interests and well being of society as well as the cause of justice require that the fraud and imposition should not be successful. It is of the highest importance that it should be distinctly understood that the use of such means to procure a divorce will meet with no favor from the courts of this State, whenever the fraud can be clearly shown. It may be true that the affirmance of the order of the County Court will involve an innocent third party in distress and disgrace and destroy rights acquired in reliance upon a judgment, but these consequences are unavoidable.””
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.