Perry v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The statute here involved, § 20-109, provides only that the court may ‘increase, decrease, or cause to cease’ any alimony that may thereafter accrue; i. e., accrue after the date of the decree, ‘whether the same has been heretofore or hereafter awarded.’ Where none has been awarded, then there is none to ‘increase, decrease, or cause to cease.’ Plainly this statute does not allow the reopening of the decree of January 31, 1958, and the granting now of alimony when none was granted by that decree.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gruber v. Gruber · Taylor v. Taylor

2. “* * Ordinarily, the judgment or decree in the divorce or separation suit, although silent as to alimony, operates as res judicata not only as to the right to a divorce or separation, but as to the question of alimony as well. The failure to grant alimony is properly treated as the equivalent of a denial of alimony and, in the absence of statute or a provision in the decree, as conclusive against the granting of alimony on a subsequent application therefor. * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Taylor v. Taylor

3. ““Upon petition of either party the court may increase, decrease, or cause to cease, any alimony that may thereafter accrue whether the same has been heretofore or hereafter awarded, as the circumstances may make proper; . . .”.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Losyk v. Losyk