Overly v. Overly’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably 113 So. 2d 95 - Loeblich v. Garnier (1959), Al Means, Inc. v. City of Montgomery (1958)
35 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 Sherrer v. Sherrer · Beckwith v. Bailey · Coffee v. Groover · Keener v. Keener · Little Bros. v. Barlow
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is ... not necessary to decide whether the letter from defendant's counsel, together with certified copy of judgment, constituted a sufficient express amendment of her pleadings.”
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.