Perkins v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 1981 · most notably Hayn v. Hayn (1946), United States National Bank v. Bartges (1949)
28 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 Petty v. Petty · King v. Mollohan · Blair v. Blair · Putnam v. Putnam · Bowers v. Bowers
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In an action for alimony, before the trial court may make an award the plaintiff must plead and prove, and the trial court must find that a cause exists for which a divorce may he granted, but where a divorce is denied it may, for good cause shown, make an order for the equitable division and disposition of the property of the parties.” (Syl. If 1.) (My emphasis.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dick v. Dick
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.