Pet v. Pet’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 11 Md. App. 638 - Quinn v. Quinn (1971), 15 Md. App. 503 - Colburn v. Colburn (1972)
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 Newmeyer v. Newmeyer · Lewis v. Lewis · Kapneck v. Kapneck · Gosnell v. Gosnell · Mays v. Mays
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.
““Although we hold in this case that the award of alimony was properly based on the overall financial ability of the husband at the time of trial, there is, of course, no reason why the award may not be increased or decreased from time to time when and as there are changes in the circumstances of the parties. Nor is there any reason why either party should not resort to discovery for such purposes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burton v. Burton
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.