Adler v. Adler’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1985
2 district · 15 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 De Brauwere v. . De Brauwere · 162 Pa. Super. 227 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Pinkenson v. Pinkenson · Turner v. Turner
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where, as here, a deserted wife has used or applied her own separate estate in the discharge of an obligation resting primarily on the husband, the law imposes a quasi contractual relationship to reimburse the deserted wife for' expenditures which she had expended from her separate estate in providing herself with support in a manner in keeping with his financial circumstances and earning power.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Smith
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.