Sharp v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably Sills v. Sills (1944), Garlington v. Garlington (1945)
35 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. Rogers · Coleman v. Coleman · Ortman v. Ortman · Jeter v. Jeter · Phillips v. Phillips
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the divorce is in favor of the wife for the misconduct of the husband, the judge trying the case, shall have the right to make an allowance to the wife out of the husband’s estate, or not make her an allowance as the circumstances of the case may justify, and if an allowance is made it must be as liberal as the estate of the husband will permit, regard being had to the condition of his family and to all the circumstances of the case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sills v. Sills““In decreeing and fixing the amount of alimony, whatever discretion is given the court ‘is judicial, not arbitrary,’ and is subject to review on appeal. (Citations omitted.)” ( 230 Ala. at page 541 , 161 So. at 711 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Gray
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.