Cornell v. Cornell’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2009
4 federal appellate · 3 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 In re the Estate of Cook · Estate of Hughes · Mohrmann v. Kob · Merrick v. Merrick · In Re the Administration of the Estate of Crandall
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The basis for entry both of an interlocutory and final judgment of divorce is the decision of the court or the report of an Official Referee, and the entry of the judgment is the ministerial act of the clerk (Snell v. Snell, 177 Misc. 923 , 32 N.Y.S.2d 485 ), which is not altered by the circumstance that it is usually signed by the Justice of the court by whom the decision was made. ‘The signature of the judge simply relieved the clerk from the necessity of comparing the decision of the court with the proposed judgment furnished by the plaintiffs’ attorney, to see that they corresponded. It was no part of the judgment and was wholly superfluous. (Loeschigk v. Addison, 3 Rob. 331 .) The decision was the only authority for entering the judgment. The entry of judgment is the act of the clerk, and he might himself have prepared and entered it, or he could adopt the form prepared by the plaintiffs’ attorney.’ (Clapp v. Hawley, 97 N.Y. 610, 614-615 .) The same thing applies to divorce actions (Civ. Prac. Act, § 1174; Snell, v. Snell, supra.).””
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.