Rodriguez v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2006
23 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 Pisciotto v. Crucia · Williams v. Williams · Wainwright v. Wainwright · Vinet v. Vinet · Hebert v. Hebert
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When the payment of alimony under a judgment is in arrears, the party entitled thereto may proceed by contradictory motion to have the amount of past due alimony determined and made executory. On the trial of the contradictory motion, the court shall render judgment for the amount of past due alimony." (Emphasis ours).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Appellant's contention that the trial court erred in failing to find the defendant guilty of contempt is without merit. A review of Mrs. Rodriguez's answer and reconventional demand reveals that she did not institute a contempt proceeding against her husband, and therefore the trial court was powerless to grant this demand."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bruner v. Bruner““The court will not allow itself to be put into the position of an accountant, computing every donation made by the father to his son. His obligation is to support the minor child by making payments to the mother, and it is only by so complying that he may fulfill this obligation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re D.W.H.
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.