Matheny v. Matheny’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 1978 · most notably Wilmot v. Wilmot (1953), Brown v. Harris (1954)
60 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 Pullen v. Pullen · Fortier v. Gelpi · State Ex Rel. Martin v. Talbot · Player v. Player · Higginbotham v. Lofton
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel for the defendant argue that it cannot be said that the plaintiff has not sufficient means for her maintenance because under Article 229 of the Revised Civil Code, her mother is under a superior obligation to maintain her needy daughter or descendant and that this legal and moral obligation of the mother ‘primes’ the obligation resting upon a divorced husband under Article 160, R.C.C., to provide a pension or* gratuity for his former wife. The right to sue her mother under Article 229 of the R.C.C. for support does not change the fact that at the time this case was tried she did not have sufficient means for her maintenance. It will be observed that there is nothing contained •in either article which would in the slightest indicate that it was necessary for the divorced wife to exhaust her remedy against her mother under Article 229, R.C.C., before asserting her right to alimony against her divorced husband under Article 160. If this were a proceeding by a daughter in indigent circumstances against her mother for support, the mother with just as much logic might say that she should first exhaust her rerriedy against her divorced husband before proceeding against her. This being so, it is obvious that the plaintiff would be in the dilemma of not being able to obtain relief under either one of the articles.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simon v. Simon““The test is not the amount of money which it requires to support the divorced wife in the manner in which she was accustomed to live, but what sum will provide her with sufficient means for her maintenance. Player v. Player, 162 La. 229, 230 , 110 So. 332 ; and Fortier v. Gelpi, 195 La. 449 , 197 So. 138 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilmot v. Wilmot“Clearly the trial judge did not abuse his discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.