Thones v. Thones’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1981
17 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 Fanchier v. Gammill · Ostrander v. Ostrander · Toncray v. Toncray · Cousineau v. Cousineau · Glanton v. Renner
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not consistent with sound public policy and justice to refuse to enforce in this state alimony judgments of a sister state by the equitable remedy of sequestration or attachment for contempt, etc., to the same extent as we enforce such judgments when originally reduced in our own courts; provided, of course, this foreign judgment is enforceable by these equitable remedies in the state which originally rendered such judgment. 203 S.W.2d at 599-60 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rasnic v. Wynn
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.