Cobb v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1973
5 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 Backman v. Douglas · Angel v. Mellen · Nielson v. Garrett · Washington County Land & Development Co. v. Weiser National Bank
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The relief granted to the plaintiff, if there be no answer, can not exceed that which he shall have demanded in his complaint; but in any other case the court may grant him any relief consistent with the case made by the complaint embraced within the issue.” (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alber v. Alber““The rule applicable here, supported by authorities, is stated in 49 C.J.S., Judgments, § 214, page 378 as follows: ‘A judgment for plaintiff by default must strictly conform to, and be supported by, the allegations of the petition or complaint, * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rickman v. Rickman
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.