Talbert v. Talbert’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably Tanner v. Tanner (1956), Abunza v. Olivier (1956)
34 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 Succession of Andrus · Munchow v. Munchow · Vicknair v. Terracina · Gastauer v. Gastauer · Talbert v. Talbert
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The item of $800 for attorney’s fees ■ covering the fees of the attorneys employed by both-the husband and the wife for the prosecution and defense of the suit of separation from bed and board is properly charged as a community debt. Vicknair v. Terracina, 168 La. 417 , 122 So. 276 ; Munchow v. Munchow, 136 La. 753 , 67 So. 819 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pennison v. Pennison
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.