Yow v. Yow’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Mauney v. Mauney (1966), 70 N.C. App. 159 - Spencer v. Spencer (1984)
44 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 Salley v. Fayetteville Coca-Cola Bottling Co. · Stanley v. . Stanley · Lamm v. . Lamm · Fogartie v. Fogartie · McFetters v. . McFetters
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the institution of plaintiff’s action for alimony without divorce, the defendant has always had, and has now, the right to bring that action, to a final determination. A final determination would terminate the orders herein for subsistence pendente lite. However, it would not affect the payment in arrears. The defendant has no one to blame except himself that these orders are still effective.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.