Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably Hudson v. Hudson (1962), 57 Ala. App. 204 - Osborne v. Osborne (1976)
34 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 Epps v. Epps · Rochelle v. Rochelle · Worthington v. Worthington · Hayes v. Hayes · Aiken v. Aiken
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under our cases installments which mature before a petition to modify is filed are immune from change. . . . But the installment payments had all been made when this petition to modify was filed. Petitioner's failure to pay the installments which he seeks to modify and which matured after the petition was filed does not militate against the power of the court to make such modification as changed conditions may justify."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.