Simpson v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1950
2 district · 21 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 Sebastian v. Rose · Staton v. Staton · Zumbiel v. Zumbiel
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A divorce from bed and board may at any time be modified or set aside by a court of equity when it is made to appear that such relief is proper or necessary. As said by Chief Justice Robertson in the. case of Logan v. Logan, 2 B. Mon. 142 , the chancellor should continue control of the ease for the benevolent purposes of keeping open the door for legitimate reconciliation and to modify, enlarge, or curtail the allowance of alimony, if it be found that it is inadequate or superfluous, according to the circumstances. Where alimony is granted, the court should retain the case for the purpose of enlarging' or curtailing the allowance according to the circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Metcalf v. Metcalf
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.