Wilde v. Wilde’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2025
23 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 State v. Pena · Jones v. Jones · STATE, DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. Higgs · Bell v. Bell · Washington National Insurance Co. v. Sherwood Associates
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be based on evidence of the financial need of the receiving spouse, the ability of the other spouse to pay, and the reasonableness of the requested fees”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[flailure to consider these factors is grounds for reversal on the fee issue.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] substantive law creates, defines and regulates the rights and duties of the parties which may give rise to a cause of action.”
3 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.