Sharp v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably McElreath v. McElreath (1961), McRary v. . McRary (1948)
38 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 John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Thompson v. Whitman · Sarah Fall v. Elizabeth Eastin · Hart v. Sansom · Elliott v. Lessee of Peirsol
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[j]urisdiction to render a judgment in rem inheres only in the courts of the state which is the situs of the res.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in form at least rendered a judgment in rem .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. HERRING v. GRAHAM
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.