Lyon v. Lyon’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1987
5 federal appellate · 12 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 In Re the Accounting of Williams · Matter of Steinman v. . Conlon · Green v. Beaumont · 7 F. Supp. 490 - Smith v. Smith · D'Andria v. Hageman
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The real issue in this case is not . whether the award of the divorce decree was alimony or a property settlement, but rather whether the “property settlement” was really an award for the support and maintenance of [the] wife.”
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.