Nace v. Nace’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably English v. English (1977), Scott v. Scott (1979)
27 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 Spector v. Spector · Kennedy v. Kennedy · Cummings v. Lockwood · Franklin v. Franklin · Fought v. Fought
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . are the same as the criteria considered in making a determination as to the reasonableness of an award for support and maintenance at the time of the original decree, including the financial conditions and needs of the wife, the ability of the wife to produce a sufficient income for herself, and the ability of the husband to provide support for the wife. Norton v. Norton, supra [ 101 Ariz. 444 , 420 P.2d 578 (1966)]. See also Kennedy v. Kennedy, 93 Ariz. 252 , 379 P.2d 966 (1963).” ( 107 Ariz. at 413 , 489 P.2d at 50 );”
1 later decision 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.