Seaton v. Seaton’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Lively v. Lively (1953), Tvardek v. Tvardek (1970)
57 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 Pryor v. Pryor · Bachus v. Bachus · McCue v. McCue · York v. State · Schley v. Dodge, Chancellor
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The second type of agreement is that by which the parties, without making a contract that is meant to confer upon the wife an independent cause of action, merely agrees upon ‘the amount the court by its decree should fix as alimony.’ ””
10 later decisions 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.