Cary v. Cary’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Kaplan v. Kaplan (1982), Pasquariello v. Pasquariello (1975)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 63 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 Emerson v. Emerson · Nelson v. Nelson · Scott v. Scott · Stillman v. Stillman · Wright v. Wright
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has elected to obtain her support from her second husband and has thereby abandoned the provision made for her support by the court in its award of alimony.”
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.