Wallace v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lopinson (1967), Griffiths v. Cigna Corp. (1993)
14 federal appellate · 41 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 Dorrance's Estate · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Esenwein v. Esenwein · Smith v. Smith · 127 Pa. Super. 501 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Cronhardt v. Cronhardt · 90 Pa. Super. 192 - Gearing v. Gearing
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the place in which, both in fact and intent, the home of a person is established without any purpose to return to a former home; the place where he lives, in distinction from that where he transacts his business; the place where he chooses to abide, in distinction from that in which he may be for a temporary purpose____”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““One does not move to a new domicile and immediately change church membership, bank account, operator’s license and club memberships. Nor does he immediately select a neighborhood, purchase a home and buy furniture. All of those acts require varying degrees of consideration and as a consequence cannot be done hastily nor simultaneously.””
2 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.