Polley v. Polley’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Dickey v. Dickey (1928), Hood v. Hood (1921)
64 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 Emerson v. Emerson · Williams v. . Williams · Outlaw v. Outlaw · McCaddin v. McCaddin · Walker v. Walker
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * alimony alone can only be granted upon grounds sufficient to justify a divorce a vinculo or a mensa.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Courson v. Courson
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.