Willits v. Willits’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Hunt v. Hunt (1909), State ex rel. Wooten v. District Court (1920)
32 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Relationships
Relies on Higgins v. . Sharp · State ex rel. Scott v. Lowell · Eliot v. Eliot · Allen v. Superior Court · Greene v. Greene
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As before stated the marriage was valid until annulled by the court. Until it was annulled, therefore, the defendant was liable for the expenses of his family and the support and maintenance of his child.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McPherson
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.