Cohen v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 17 Cal. 2d 108 - Biewend v. Biewend (1941), Burtnett v. King (1949)
5 federal appellate · 100 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Cahill v. Superior Court of S.F. · Ex parte Spencer · Southworth v. Treadwell · Stillman v. Stillman · Gaston v. Gaston
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Good public policy would not compel a divorced husband to support his former wife after she has become another man's wife, except under extraordinary conditions, which she should be required to prove. Unless such conditions are shown by her to exist, the court should, on the former husband's motion, cancel all payments accruing after the remarriage, in all cases where, as here, there are no children and the allowance is based solely upon the husband's probable earning capacity, or upon his breach of the marriage vows, and not upon existing property rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in a case where the relief given is within the terms of a prayer for general relief and is germane to the cause of action stated, although it may not be authorized by the facts alleged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Craft v. Craft“such other relief as may be just and meet in the premises and within the jurisdiction of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Craft v. Craft
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.