Sullivan v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Hager v. Hager (1974), Epps v. Epps (1929)
64 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 Audubon v. Shufeldt · Emerson v. Emerson · Herrick v. Herrick · Coleman v. Coleman · Morgan v. Morgan
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the power or control of subsequent installments of allowances for alimony, as such, are dependent upon the justice of the case and condition and respective necessities of the parties.”
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.