Wainwright v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 1982 · most notably Pisciotto v. Crucia (1954), 352 So. 2d 1013 - Halcomb v. Halcomb (1977)
50 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 Snow v. Snow · Williams v. Williams · Gehrkin v. Gehrkin · Scott v. Scott
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"With regard to the demand and award for attorney's fees we know of no law and have been referred to none which provides for such fees in a case of this kind. In this respect, the judgment will have to be reversed."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The jurisprudence is well settled that a judgment for alimony, as to the amount that has become past due, is the property of him in whose favor it has been given, and is protected against alteration or annulment except by the method and for the causes prescribed by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hinds v. Primeaux
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.