Taylor v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1979 · most notably National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama M Flowers (1964), Davis v. Davis (1962)
75 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 Sills v. Sills · Garlington v. Garlington · Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. Davis · Spafford v. Spafford · Moseley v. Alabama Power Co.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Regardless of statute, or the right to a divorce, the court may under its general equity power, decree separate maintenance, upon sufficient allegation and proof; and we have held that a general prayer is sufficient for that purpose. In other words, the right to separate maintenance is not dependent upon the existence of some statutory ground for divorce. Wohlert v. Wohlert, 217 Ala. 96 , 114 So. 906 ; Spafford v. Spafford, 199 Ala. 300 , 74 So. 354 , LRA 1917D, 773; Cross v. Cross, 200 Ala. 21 , 75 So. 333 .””
2 later decisions 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.