98 F. Supp. 802 - Linscott v. Linscott’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1975
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Williams v. State of North Carolina · Burrus · Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · State of Ohio Popovici v. Agler · Anderson v. Watt
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been understood that, `the whole subject of domestic relations of husband and wife, parent and child, belongs to the laws of the states and not to the laws of the United States.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buechold v. Ortiz““[to] do an ill service ... in which our ultimate determination could prove an obstacle to the granting of appropriate relief by the State court.” 98 F.Supp. at 805 .”
1 later decision 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.