Cotton v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

104 state decisions

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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Counsel’s theory seems to be that, in as much as plaintiff’s suit for separation was dismissed after defendant was granted a divorce on the ground of two years’ separation, there is no suit pending as an incident of which alimony pendente lite may be awarded. It is true, as he argued, that a decree for alimony pendente lite is an incident of a suit for separation or for divorce. But plaintiff by this proceeding is, not seeking to have the court award her alimony. She- is seeking to collect past-due installments of alimony awarded in March, 1937, as an incident to her suit for separation which was then pending, the judgment awarding the alimony and fixing the amount of the weekly installments to be paid having become final prior to the date on which she instituted the present proceeding.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Viser v. Viser