Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Cotton v. Wright (1939), 352 So. 2d 1013 - Halcomb v. Halcomb (1977)
51 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 State ex rel. Huber v. King · Edwards v. Perrault
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A judgment for alimony is not a final judgment, but is always subject to review and change as to future installments in the court which rendered it. * * *" (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. Gilbert
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.