Wespe v. Wespe’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 1948
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Smith
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As this court has said many times, it cannot retry the case on the abstract. It does not possess the trial court’s facilities for reaching a correct conclusion, and must assume that court strained neither the law nor the facts. The same considerations apply to the award of alimony. Besides that, the district court has a broad discretion in allowing alimony, and that manifest injustice which is necessary to constitute abuse of discretion does not appear.” (p. 22.)”
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.