Eastes v. Eastes’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 1956 · most notably Gallup v. Schmidt (1900), Wills v. Wills (1911)
33 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 Powell v. Powell · Conn v. Conn · Graft v. Graft · Hilligoss v. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, & St. Louis Railroad · Shores v. Shores
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But we fail to see that any good result would or could be accomplished by giving these statutory provisions the literal or rigid construction which the appellant's counsel insists should be placed upon them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Irwin v. Irwin
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.