Weaks v. Weaks’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably In Re Marriage of Cowan (1996), Drummond v. State (1998)
54 state decisions — followed in 20 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Andler v. Andler · 57 Ala. App. 230 - Binns v. Maddox · 74 Wash. 2d 253 - Chase v. Chase · Horton v. Horton · 341 Pa. Super. 512 - Children & Youth Services of Allegheny County v. Chorgo
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ocial security benefits received by the party”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.