Scott v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1942
12 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 Franck v. Franck · Sebastian v. Rose · Scott v. Scott · Staton v. Staton · Simpson v. Simpson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have express authority (section 2121, Kentucky Statutes) for revision or vacation by the court, that rendered it of a judgment for divorce from bed and board; but there is no statutory authority, either express or implied, for the modification of a judgment for absolute divorce. We are, therefore, of the opinion that -the circuit courts of this state are without power to modify an allowance for permanent alimony accompanying a judgment of absolute divorce,, after the expiration of the term at which it was rendered unless the court in its judgment, expressly or by necessary implication, reserves control of the-question of alimony. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Jones
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.