Jelks v. Jelks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Since appellant is a soldier in the armed forces of the United States, the court below continued his suit for divorce and it will not be disposed of except upon appellant’s motion until his discharge from the service. (Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940. Oct. 17, 1940, c. 888, § 1, 54 Stat. 1178 , 50 U.S.C.A., § 501 et seq.) January 4, 1943, the court made an award to appellee for the support and maintenance of herself and their five-month-old baby “pendente lite and until further orders of this court.” Inasmuch as appellant is the moving party here and has filed suit for divorce against his wife, temporary alimony may be awarded during its pendency and will be payable until the court below orders otherwise, and appellee would, under these circumstances, be entitled to the allowances without show of merit on her part. This court so held in Slocum v. Slocum, 86 Ark. 469 , 111 S.W. 806 (quoting the headnote), “While, in a suit for divorce brought by a wife, she must make a showing of merit before the court will make her an allowance of temporary alimony and suit money, the court does not require such showing where the husband sues the wife, or brings a cross-bill, asking a divorce in a suit instituted by her.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lenser v. McGowan