Dauterive v. Sternfels’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1972
9 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 Gosserand v. Monteleone · Munchow v. Munchow · First National Bank v. Johnson · Vicknair v. Terracina · Lester v. Lester
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The award of alimony to Mrs. Sternfels was made under the cited article 148 Rev.Civ.Code, presumably `proportioned to her needs and to the means of her husband,' and rested within the discretion of the district judge. It was not a final judgment. It was open to re-examination and change by him, at any time, as altered conditions and circumstances warranted."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.