Kennedy v. . Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
40
cited by 40 later decisions
11
states following
April 1970
most recently cited
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 1970 · most notably De Meli v. . De Meli (1890), Carpenter v. Carpenter (1883)
40 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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.