Yeager v. Yeager’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1958 · most notably Watkins v. Watkins (1923), Lewis v. Lewis (1928)
26 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 Green v. Green · Shehan v. Shehan · Burns v. Burns · Pope v. Pope · Rice v. Rice
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have frequently held that in fixing the amount of alimony the court should consider • the amount of the husband’s estate; his income and earning capacity ; his age, health, and ability to labor; the age, health, and station of the wife; the particular cause of the divorce; the relative responsibility of the parties therefor; whether or not the wife has helped in accumulating the husband’s property; and all other relevant circumstances. Shehan v. Shehan, 152 Ky. 191 , 153 S. W. 243 ; Burns v. Burns, 173 Ky. 105 , 190 S. W. 683 , and the many c;ases cited therein.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Duff v. Duff · Lewis v. Lewis
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.