Warner v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Baskerville v. Baskerville (1956), Becker v. Becker (1978)
43 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 Cheely v. Clayton · Wallace v. Wallace · Thurston v. Thurston · Marshall v. Marshall · Warren v. Warren
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * We think the language of § 518.23 [predecessor to current § 518.64 1 ] plainly limits the court’s power to ‘revise and alter’ an order or decree in the matter of alimony to cases where, initially and as a part of the divorce proceeding, ‘alimony, or other allowance’ has been given to the wife.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“After an order for maintenance or support money, temporary or permanent, * * * the court may from time to time, on petition of either of the parties, * * * modify the order respecting the amount of maintenance or support money, and the payment of it * * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the intention of the parties that a full and complete property settlement had been made, and that there was no alimony or support money [to plaintiff] of any kind to be paid by defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilcox v. Wilcox
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.