Robinson v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1939
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 In re Morgan · Shohoney v. Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad · Shannon v. Shannon · Putnam v. Ross · Oster v. Rabeneau
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.
““ Sec. 2375. When a divorce shall be adjudged, the court shall make such order touching the alimony and maintenance of the wife, and the care, custody and maintenance of the children, or any of them, as, from the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case, shall he reasonable. . . . The court, on the application of either party, may make such alteration, from time to time, as to the allowance of alimony and maintenance, as may he proper.” ‘ ‘ Sec. 2381. . . . There may he a review of any order or judgment touching the alimony or maintenance of the wife, or the care, custody and maintenance of the children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Robinson
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.