Fox v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Silva v. Silva (1979), State v. Healy (1980)
6 district · 46 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 Simonson v. International Bank · Rogers v. Rogers · Romano v. B. B. Greenberg Co. · Norton v. Paolino · Langdeau v. Narragansett Insurance Company
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““all petitions for divorce from the bond of marriage and from bed and board; all motions for allowance, alimony, support and custody of children, allowance of counsel and witness fees, and other matters including all petitions and motions relative to real and personal property in aid thereof affecting the parties and children wherein jurisdiction is acquired by the court by the filing of such petitions for divorce * * *.” G.L.1956 § 8-10-3, as amended by P.L.1961, ch. 73, § 1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lubecki v. Ashcroft““all motions for allowance, alimony, support and custody of children * * * wherein jurisdiction is acquired by the court by the filing of petitions for divorce, bed and board and separate maintenance * * * and custody of children in proceedings, whether or not supported by petitions for divorce or separate maintenance or for relief without commencement of divorce proceedings.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Paolino v. Paolino
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.