Spears v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
8 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Miller v. Burk (2008), National Union Fire Insurance v. Pratt & Whitney Canada, Inc. (1991)
8 district · 36 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 Noble v. Noble · Magee v. Whitacre · State Ex Rel. Keith v. Westerfield · Jones v. State · UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. Adams
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is well established that one who is not prejudiced by the operation of a statute cannot question its validity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court will not consider constitutional issues which are not necessary to the determination of an appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.