Cheever v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 108 · 1869
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1970 · most notably Erie Co v. Tompkins (1938), Williams v. State of North Carolina (1942)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 90 state decisions — followed in 28 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 Massie v. Watts
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is that slie may acquire a separate domicile whenever it is necessary or proper that she should do so. The right springs from the necessity for its exercise, and endures as long as the necessity continues. The proceeding for a divorce may be instituted where the wife has her domicile.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The place of the marriage, of the offense, and the domicile of the husband are of no consequence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.