Viser v. Viser’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1983
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 Brown v. Harris
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.
““Although it is indicated Harry L. Viser has not enjoyed a substantial income since January 1, 1965, the record does reveal, however, that he possesses the capacity to earn perhaps substantial income from his profession and thereby fulfill his obligation by paying alimony as awarded and directed by the trial court.” (Emphasis ours.)”
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.