Edwards v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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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.

1. ““[A]n order allowing temporary alimony is not in the nature of a final judgment on which execution can issue, nor is it a decree in equity for the payment of money. [Citations omitted.] No vested rights are acquired in the amount allowed. [Citation omitted.] Like other interlocutory orders, an order for support money pendente lite . . . remains solely in the sound judicial discretion of the court which made it [citations omitted], and may be modified as varying circumstances justify during the time the action is pending in any form in the district court, even to the extent of discharging accrued and unpaid installments. [Citations omitted.] “[T]he past due installments . . . did not become final judgments . . . which could be collected by execution. . . . [T]hose installments, when due, were subject to enforcement by attachment ... or by contempt proceedings.” 182 Kan. at 744-45 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dube v. Dube