Penn v. Penn’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1981
20 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 Coleman v. Coleman · Ex parte Smith · Ex Parte Austin · Ex Parte Harris · Norrell v. Norrell
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As pointed out in the case of Norrell v. Norrell, 241 Ala. 170 , 1 So.2d 654 , and reaffirmed in Searcy v. Searcy, 242 Ala. 129 , 5 So.2d 97 , there is no jurisdiction in the court to grant ‘permanent alimony’ without a divorce. A court of equity has jurisdiction to make an allowance for separate maintenance without a divorce either sought or granted; but permanent alimony is inconsistent with the sustained relation of the marriag'e status.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mason v. Mason
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.