Brady v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently November 1980 · most notably Ex parte Dickens (1909), Ex Parte Jackson (1925)
100 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 Ex parte Tower Manufacturing Co. · Murray v. Murray · Hinds v. Hinds · Brindley v. Brindley · Edwards v. Edwards
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is to be observed that this right [to maintain a bill for alimony pendente lite] is only to be exercised where the wife is without means,””
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.