Petrie v. Petrie’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2000
11 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 Skidmore v. Skidmore · Dalton v. Dalton · Brady Et Ux. v. B. B. Ice Company · Williamson v. Williamson · Howard v. Howard
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The determination of the amount of alimony, the form of its payment and the amount of maintenance and support are all matters resting in the sound discretion of the chancellor, which matters are to be decided on the peculiar facts of each particular case. Dalton v. Dalton, 304 Ky. 223 , 200 S.W.2d 469 ; Osten v. Osten, 286 Ky. 473 , 151 S.W.2d 67 . * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hicks v. Hicks
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.