Ex parte Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
3 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 1998 · most notably Chula v. Superior Court (1962), Bradley v. Superior Court (1957)
3 district · 69 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Galland v. Galland · Ex parte Perkins · Eidenmuller v. Eidenmuller · Wilson · Ex parte Cottrell
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The order for such allowance, or any subsequent order made in modification thereof, is subject to review upon appeal, (citing authorities) but, until reversed, it must be obeyed, or the party must purge himself of contempt by showing his inability to pay it, and that the inability is not occasioned by his own act, for the purpose of avoiding payment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The Court will look at the substance of the thing, and not defeat its object merely because somebody has misnamed it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Diment v. Diment
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.