Zarges v. Zarges’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Myers v. Olson (1984), Rhinehart v. Nowlin (1990)
46 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 Grubb v. Public Utilities Commission · Beals ex rel. Walker v. Ares · Martinez v. Research Park, Inc. · Young v. Vail · Davidson v. Enfield
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The instant case presents a situation where the trial court had exhausted its jurisdiction, and appellee thereafter undertook, in effect, to breathe new life into it. No statute or rule permits of such procedure. Upon the entry of the decree in the divorce action and the passage of time provided for appeal therefrom or to reopen the same, it was final and nothing further could be done in the case beyond the specifically limited continuing power provided in § 22-7-6 [now compiled as Section 40-4-7].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mendoza v. Mendoza
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.