Mower v. Mower’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably 15 Md. App. 503 - Colburn v. Colburn (1972), Lewis v. Lewis (1959)
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 Scheinin v. Scheinin · Schwartz v. Schwartz · Miller v. Miller · Bradshaw v. Bradshaw · Kelsey v. Kelsey
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.
““Where a bill for divorce a mensa et thoro also prays for custody of a minor child and for its support and maintenance, and the divorce is denied, the bill should not be dismissed but custody should be awarded and jurisdiction should be retained for the purpose of awarding support and maintenance if the circumstances should warrant such action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ricketts v. Ricketts
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.