Spriggs v. Spriggs’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1963
18 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 Crawford v. Pierse · In re Stinger Estate · STATE ex rel. Kelly v. District Court of the Second Judicial District
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to make a decree in rem as to the ownership of the property which will be distributed by it.”
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.