Taylor v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Robertson v. Robertson (1975), 12 Va. App. 512 - Lee v. Lee (1991)
30 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 Bray v. Landergren · Richardson v. Lovvorn · Oliver v. Oliver · Hawkins v. Hawkins · Heninger v. Heninger
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a divorce case, where a claim for alimony is made by a wife who has been held blameless for the marital breach, the law imposes upon the husband the duty, within the limits of his financial ability, to maintain his former wife according to the station in life to which she was accustomed during the marriage. In fixing the amount of alimony, the court must look to the financial needs of the wife, her age, physical condition and ability to earn, and balance against these circumstances the financial ability of the husband to pay, considering his income and his ability to earn. The amount awarded must, in any event, be fair and just under all the circumstances of the case. Where the wife is possessed of a sizeable estate in her own right, the law does not require her to invade that estate to relieve the obligation of her former husband whose actions have brought an end to their marriage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the legal and moral duty of a husband to support his wife and family consistent with his financial ability.... "In respect to alimony, the general rule is that the income of the husband, however derived or derivable, is the fund from which the allowance is made." ... The ability of the husband to pay is determined not necessarily by the amount of his actual earnings, but also by his ability to earn, and what, under all the circumstances [including his possessions ], will be a fair and just allotment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In respect to alimony, the general rule is that the income of the husband, however derived or derivable, is the fund from which the allowance is made.”
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.