Allen v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Staedler v. Staedler (1951), Posner v. Posner (1970)
43 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 Wilson v. . Hinman · Storey v. Storey · Gallemore v. Gallemore · Miller v. Miller · Sanderson's Administrators v. Sanderson
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * As a general rule the obligation to pay alimony dies with the person, but agreements of the husband to bind his representatives to do this have been upheld, and there is no prohibition against them in this state."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“agreements to facilitate or promote divorce are illegal as contrary to public policy.”
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.