237 Mo. App. 873 - Pflanz v. Pflanz’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Harrison v. Harrison (1960), Taylor v. Taylor (1963)
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 Nelson v. Nelson · Mayes v. Mayes · State Ex Rel. City of St. Louis v. Priest · Ferguson & Wheeler v. Dalton · Mellier v. Bartlett
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.
““ * * * It is well established that, under Missouri practice, a judgment for alimony or maintenance in a divorce suit is treated the same and is subject to the same incidents as other judgments rendered in actions at law, and that under Section 1519, supra, (now 452.070, RSMo 1959) an execution may issue on failure of defendant to pay such a judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Taylor
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.