Wise v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably Brown v. Farkas (1943), Estes v. Estes (1941)
22 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 Odom v. Odom · Miller v. Miller · Gilbert v. Gilbert · Atlanta Savings Bank v. Spencer · Ragan v. Shiver
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether or not these provisions could be applied in the case of a grant of permanent alimony where a total divorce is granted, they are not sufficient to require a different construction than that hereinbefore given to the Code of 1863, §§ 1676, 1677, 1678; which in the Civil Code of 1910 are §§ 2954, 2955, 2956.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berry v. Berry“Alimony is an allowance out of the husband's estate, made for the support of the wife when living separate from him. It is either temporary or permanent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berry v. Berry“refer to the grant of alimony where the marriage relation continues or has not been dissolved by a final verdict of divorce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berry v. Berry
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.