James v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1985
4 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 Muir v. Muir · Shehan v. Shehan · Metcalf v. Metcalf · Griffin v. Griffin · Hardman v. Hardman
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Due to the manner in which appellant [husband] and his mother handled their business and in light of his evasive testimony concerning his earnings, it is difficult for the court to determine with any degree of accuracy his present financial ability to pay alimony. Therefore, not only his earnings from his own efforts, but his likely inheritance from the estate of [his] mother, he being the only child, may be taken into account.” Id. at 708 .”
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.