Cohen v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1982
12 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 Boyer v. Andrews · McDuffie v. McDuffie · Complaints of Holland v. Flournoy · Lechner v. Lechner
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An order for the payment of money as alimony rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction in one state must be recognized by all other states under the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution as to all accrued installments not subject to modification by the court rendering the original order. Only if such accrued payments are still subject to modification may recovery be denied. [Citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Huggins v. Deinhard
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.