Green v. Green’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A continuing order of court for the payment of alimony remains within the control of the court from time to time, to be altered according to changes in the circumstances of the parties. A decree rendered for an accrued sum becomes final with the end of the term, and cannot be set aside at a subsequent term, even though found to be erroneous. In that respect it is the same as any other judgment or decree of a court of record.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Erwin v. Erwin