Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably 302 So. 2d 5 - Imperial v. Hardy (1974), Hickman v. Hickman (1969)
26 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 Pepiton v. Pepiton · Pullen v. Pullen · Higginbotham v. Lofton · Bickham v. Pitts · Lea v. Orleans Parish School Board
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * From the fact, however, that the right to trial by jury obtains in cases involving a divorce, it does not necessarily follow that the same right exists with respect to the issues of custody of the children born of the marriage and alimony for their support. While these issues are incidental to and arise out of the main demand, they are nevertheless matters to be tried and determined by the judge without the intervention of a jury * * *. Moreover, the jurisprudence in this state is well settled that such judgments are never final, being subject to modification by the judge in summary proceedings instituted by either party * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Delaney v. Delaney““When the person who gives or receives alimony is replaced in such a situation that the one can no longer give, or that the other is no longer in need of it, in whole or in part, the discharge from or reduction of the alimony may be sued for and granted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laiche v. Laiche
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.