Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 1978 · most notably Long v. O'MARY (1959), Butler v. Butler (1950)
42 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 Chandler v. Whatley · Bowery v. Babbit · Aiken v. Aiken · Bridges v. Bridges · Smith v. Smith
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is no objection to the bill, then, that it is an independent suit in the same court where the divorce was granted. Whether so or not is immaterial, since the bill invokes the jurisdiction of the court for the purpose stated. The principle was thus reasserted in the Bridges case, 227 Ala. at page 146 , 148 So. at page 816 : `In the decree of divorce, that court could have provided for the custody of the child and its support and maintenance, but, whether so or not, a proceeding thereafter concerning such matters may be begun in the same court by supplemental proceedings, though they are treated in many respects as original (19 Corpus Juris 353, 354, 355), with the right to review by appeal as any other original proceeding. Smith v. Smith , 218 Ala. 701 , 120 So. 167 .'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is immaterial that in the decree of divorce no provision was made for the maintenance and education of the minor children of the parties. The equity court has full jurisdiction respecting the duty of the father to support his minor children (Bridges v. Bridges , 227 Ala. 144 , 148 So. 816 ) and it devolved upon him to maintain and educate them in a manner commensurate with his means (Farmer v. Coleman , 231 Ala. 527 , 165 So. 778 ; Chandler v. Whatley , 238 Ala. 206 , 189 So. 751 )."”
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.