255 So. 2d 883 - McElwee v. McElwee’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2001
15 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 Houghton v. Hall · Messersmith v. Messersmith · Betz v. Riviere · Milling v. Collector of Revenue · Fortier v. Barry
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The trial judge held the obligation of the husband to maintain the wife during the marriage in the manner in which she had become accustomed, as recognized and enforced by La.Civ.Code Art. 148, should be discharged by community funds, if available. Although the jurisprudence on this subject is somewhat confusing, we are of the opinion the trial judge's conclusion is correct under the holdings in the following cases: Cordaro v. Cordaro, 168 So.2d 886 (La.App. 2nd Cir. 1964); Messersmith v. Messersmith, 229 La. 495 , 86 So.2d 169 (1956); White v. White, 159 La. 1065 , 106 So. 567 (1925)."”
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.