Clark v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1944
3 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 Hawley v. Hawley
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . to be tried de novo upon the whole record, our statute providing that, upon appeal in cases of this character, this court shall be possessed of the whole case as fully as the lower court was, . . .” Clark v. Clark, 92 Wash. 450 , 159 Pac. 702 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCallum v. McCallum
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.