Potter v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2018
20 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 Bradley v. Superior Court · Reynolds v. Reynolds · Stone v. Stidham · Collins v. Superior Court · Proffit v. Proffit
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... as stated in the dawning days of our Republic in Respublica v. Oswald, 1 Dall. 319, 329 , 1 L.Ed. 155 , 160 (1788), by Chief Justice McKean, cited in part in Smith v. Speed, 11 Okl. 95 , 66 P. 511 at 515 [(1901)]: “... Some doubts were suggested, whether even a contempt of the court was punishable by attachment; but not only my brethren and myself, but likewise all the Judges of England, think, that without this power no court could possibly exist; — nay, that no contempt could indeed, be committed against us, we should be so truly contemptible. The law upon the subject is of immemorial antiquity; and there is not any period when it can be said to have ceased, or discontinued ...”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Shipman v. French““When by the terms of the divorce decree title to a jointly-owned enterprise is set apart to one spouse [Wife] who is adjudged to assume the outstanding indebtedness of the business so awarded her and to hold the other spouse [Husband] harmless from that class of jointly-incurred obligations, will contempt lie against the assuming spouse in default to enforce her liability for the court-ordered indemnity? ...” 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norris v. Norris“"I feel the majority's rationale is as applicable to 12 O.S. 1971 § 850 as it is to the instant proceeding, which fact is an indicia of the error promulgated here ..." 609 P.2d at 1282 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lepak v. McClain
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.