Berry v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Sweeney v. Merchants National Bank (1972), Ramsay v. Sims (1952)
25 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 Brown v. Farkas · Wise v. Wise · Johnson v. Johnson · Rush v. Howkins · Knight v. Wingate
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to receive alimony, and the corresponding duty to pay it, being personal, are generally considered as terminating on the death of either of the parties, where no statute to the contrary exists and the judgment or decree is silent on the subject. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. Foster
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.