Bradshaw v. Bradshaw’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Waters v. Waters (1948), Scheinin v. Scheinin (1952)
43 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 Dougherty v. Dougherty · Timanus v. Timanus · Schwartz v. Schwartz · Miller v. Miller · Kline v. Kline
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining an award of alimony and whether ‘the wife’s income is insufficient to care for her needs,’ the court should consider the husband’s wealth and earning capacity, the station in life of the parties, age, physical condition, the ability to work, the length of time the parties have lived together, the circumstances leading up to the divorce, and the fault which destroyed the home. . . . Also, of course, to be taken into consideration are the assets and income of the wife.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conover v. Conover
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.