Woolams v. Woolams’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1985
14 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 Bailey v. Superior Court · Paxton v. Paxton · Simoneau v. Pacific Electric Ry. Co. · Anderson v. Anderson · Duffy v. Yordi
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court entering the decree still retains jurisdiction to modify its orders if circumstances warrant the change, and the proper procedure for a party who is unable to comply with an order for the payment of alimony or the support of his minor children is to seek a modification of the order--not to resist its enforcement, thereby subjecting himself to contempt proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a court is entitled to make [support allowances] in view of a person's earning ability”
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.