Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1983 · most notably 339 So. 2d 839 - Ward v. Ward (1976), Viser v. Viser (1962)
31 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 Smith v. Smith · Cotton v. Wright · Eals v. Swan · Arnold v. Arnold · Hillard v. Hillard
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We think, however, that there is merit in defendant's claim that the trial judge erred in awarding plaintiff the amount of $250 as attorney's fees. Although she alleged that she was entitled to attorney's fees and prayed for judgment against the defendant therefor, she did not allege that she had paid counsel or obligated herself to pay in any amount, nor did she introduce any evidence to show the value of said services. Under the circumstances, the judgment granting attorney's fees was unwarranted. Scacciaferro v. Hymel, 206 La. 973 , 20 So. 2d 284 ; Arnold v. Arnold, 186 La. 323 , 172 So. 172 ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the wife has not a sufficient income for her maintenance pending the suit for separation from bed and board or for divorce, the judge shall allow her, whether she appears as plaintiff or defendant, a sum for her support, proportioned to her needs and to the means of her husband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ward v. Ward““Counsel’s argument that when the wife was granted an absolute divorce on the ground that she had been living separate and apart from her husband for more than two years, her suit against him for separation from bed and board necessarily went out of existence, is correct”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snider v. Bozarth
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.