Eddens v. Eddens’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Ex Parte Helms (1953), 5 Va. App. 238 - Brown v. Brown (1987)
36 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 Gompers v. United States · Pendergast v. United States · Robertson v. Commonwealth · Ex Parte Davis · Orr Ex Rel. Walton v. Orr
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] decree for alimony [now spousal support] is essentially different from an ordinary debt or judgment for money.... It is an order compelling [one spouse] to support [the other], and this is a public as well as a marital dutya moral as well as a legal obligation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reid v. Reid · Hayden v. Hayden“technically the reinstatement of the cause on the docket for the purpose stated was not proper nor was it necessary . . . but this did not vitiate the . . . proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olin v. Olin
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.