Pingree v. Pingree’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1960
13 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 Miller v. Miller · Creyts v. Creyts · Maslen v. Anderson · Seibly v. Person · Taylor v. . Taylor
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Maslen v. Anderson, 163 Mich. 477 , 128 N.W. 723 , a decree of divorce was granted, and alimony was given to the wife payable to her monthly as long as she should live and remain unmarried. Later Mr. Anderson died, and the executor of his estate attacked the divorce decree upon numerous grounds. The court discusses at length the jurisdiction of circuit courts in chancery in alimony cases, and holds it is strictly statutory. The court found that some things were included in the divorce decree that the court had no jurisdiction to include. But also held that 'we are satisfied with the decree of the court below in so far as it deals with the subject of alimony to be paid to Louisa A. Anderson.’ It will be remembered that this alimony was payable monthly during the life of Mrs. Anderson unless she remarried, and the case was decided after Mr. Anderson’s death. The language of the statute which appears in the opinion of Brown v. Brown, supra, ( 135 Mich. 141 , 97 N.W. 396 ) is not ambiguous. It and the opinions from which we have quoted justify the modification of the decree as to alimony after the death of the husband.””
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.