Adams v. Seibly’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1947
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ordinarily the question whether or not permanent alimony should be allowed'is determined at the time the decree of divorce is announced (or, if not, it is later), by the same judge. He may withhold the decision of the alimony question for decision later, upon additional testimony, or upon the evidence produced at the hearing, if that subject has been gone into.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy v. McCoy
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.