Swift v. Swift’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2000
3 district · 1 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 Parham v. Cortese · Baim & Blank, Inc. v. Bruno-New York, Inc. · Bodnar v. Bodnar · Chastain v. Evennou
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court, as a layman, cannot judge the plaintiff’s mental stability. It is appropriate that the court be furnished up-to-date information concerning the plaintiff’s present mental condition, both in order to consider the many facets of the trial and the proposed relief, and to avoid any risk of finding that the time required for pretrial proceedings and trial might prove futile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.