Werner v. Commonwealth and Werner’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2007
10 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 Losyk v. Losyk · Perry v. Perry · Jones v. Richardson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“continues in full force and effect notwithstanding the entry. . . of a divorce decree that is silent as to support.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any suit for divorce the court in which same is instituted or pending, when either party to the proceedings so request, shall provide in its decree for . . . maintenance for the spouse, if the same be sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sawyer v. Sawyer“could have asked the circuit court to make specific provision in the final divorce decree for allowance or denial of alimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sawyer v. Sawyer
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.