Libbe v. Libbe’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 1983 · most notably Noll v. Noll (1956), Price v. Price (1955)
52 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 State ex rel. Gercke v. Seddon · 49 Mo. App. 592 - Adams v. Adams · Wright v. Salisbury · Libbe v. Libbe · Robbins v. Robbins
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Plaintiff is a prosperous business man in good circumstances and enjoying a good income from his business. Defendant, his wife, had no means of her own, and unless she procured the money from her husband for her support and to carry on the divorce suit necessarily either would have had to abandon the suit or else resort to her family or friends for means. The law does not contemplate that a wife shall be reduced to a condition so hard. The ecclesiastical courts of England allowed suit money almost as a matter of course, and regulated the allowance to meet exigencies as they arose. Our statutes relating to alimony pendente lite and suit money are but a modern adaptation of the rules and practices of the ecclesiastical law. Whether guilty or innocent, the wife has a right to prosecute or defend an action for divorce, and, since the husband usually holds the purse strings, he must furnish her the means of attack or defense if she is without adequate means of her own. ⅜ ””
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.