Russo v. Russo’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1978 · most notably Smith v. Smith (1950), Pisciotto v. Crucia (1954)
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 Wright v. Wright · Slagle v. Slagle · Russo v. Russo · Abbott v. Abbott · Scott v. Scott
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.
“"When the wife has not been at fault, and she has not sufficient means for her support, the court may allow her, out of the property and earnings of the husband, alimony which shall not exceed one-third of his income when: "1. The wife obtains a divorce; "2. The husband obtains a divorce on the ground that he and his wife had been living separate and apart, or on the ground that there has been no reconciliation between the spouses after a judgment of separation from bed and board, for a specified period of time; or "3. The husband obtained a valid divorce from his wife in a court of another state or country which has no jurisdiction over her person. "This alimony shall be revoked if it becomes unnecessary, and terminates if the wife remarries."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"If the wife has not a sufficient income for her maintenance pending the suit for separation from bed and board or for divorce, the judge shall allow her, whether she appears as plaintiff or defendant, a sum for her support, proportioned to her needs and to the means of her husband."”
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.