Williams v. Spivy’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1980
4 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 Lee v. Koester · Nissen v. Farquhar · Landreaux v. Landreaux
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Alimony pendente lite, in a suit for separation, or for divorce, is merely an incident of such suit. Plaintiff’s suit for separation having been dismissed as in case of nonsuit, and no appeal having been taken from the judgment of dismissal, defendant’s right to claim alimony, because of the suit, necessarily falls. Lee v. Koester, 155 La. 756 , 99 So. 588 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cotton v. Wright
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.