Rumsey v. Rumsey’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2003
21 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 Wilkinson v. Elliott · Deeds v. Deeds · Small v. Small · Hipple v. Hipple · Kremer v. Schutz
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a wife files a petition asking for alimony, in which she describes certain real estate belonging to her husband, and prays that it be awarded to her as permanent alimony, the doctrine of Us pendens applies, and anyone who purchases such property during the pendency of the action will be bound by the judgment subsequently rendered therein.” (Syl. fl.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The trial court has a wide discretion in the allowance of alimony and attorney fees, and its exercise of that discretion, unless clearly abused, will not be disturbed on appeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Thompson
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.