Stevens v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Simmons v. Simmons (1998), Broadhead v. Broadhead (1987)
58 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Wolfe v. Wolfe · 37 Cal. 3d 762 - In Re Marriage of Sullivan · O'Brien v. O'Brien · 101 Wash. 2d 168 - In Re the Marriage of Washburn · 107 Wis. 2d 1 - In Re Marriage of Lundberg
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“*** the award was made subject to automatic termination in the event that appellant lived 'in a state of concubinage' and because the trial court did not retain any jurisdiction to modify the award had this occurred, it was error to limit the award in this manner. *** " Furthermore, we note the dissenting opinion of Justice Douglas in Stevens, supra, which concurred on this point, and stated: "[Rlestitution should certainly bear no relationship to archaic requirements of chastity, particularly since such requirements have never been applied to men....This double standard has more than a modicum of unfairness”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Kaufman v. Kaufman
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.