Catren v. Catren’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
April 1949
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Conway v. Conway · Revere v. Revere · Conway v. Conway
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An award of permanent alimony in a divorce action payable in installments depending on contingencies that may or may not happen, without fixing a definite aggregate sum to be paid, is void and may be vacated at any time on application of a party affected thereby.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.