Gresham v. Gresham’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably East v. East (1986), BLOUNT v. Blount (1957)
44 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 Winkler v. Winkler · Felder Et Ux. v. Felder's Estate
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has the power to affirm, reverse, or modify the decree appealed from, or it may reverse in part and affirm in part or remand for a new hearing, and where all the facts necessary to enable it to do justice are contained in the record, it may make such order with respect to alimony or allowances as the trial court should have made. The essential facts are in the record. There would seem no need to remand the cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and is not subject to revision and correction on appeal, unless it is erroneous on its face, or unjust to either party, or oppressive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.