Sterling v. Sterling’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Saltzgaver v. Saltzgaver (1944), Wendel v. Wendel (1927)
37 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 Hood v. Hood · Kremelberg v. Kremelberg · Dicus v. Dicus · Thiess v. Thiess · Carter v. Carter
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that the wife is a privileged suitor in divorce cases, and if she is without an income competent for her support and the maintenance of the suit, living separated from her husband, the court will allow her alimony pendente lite and money to carry on her suit, without inquiring into the merits.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the rule and the reason therefor the court may allow the payment of alimony, pending an appeal, and costs and reasonable counsel fees incurred or paid by the wife in the prosecution or defense of an appeal to this Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. Phipps
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.