Mathison v. Mathison’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1972
9 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 Faulk & Co. v. Hobbie Grocery Co. · Wilkinson v. Roper · Taylor v. Bailes · Bell v. McLaughlin · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Holmes
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We agree with the trial court that the cross bill seeking independent equitable relief against the original complainant, i. e., a divorce on statutory grounds connected with or growing out of the original bill may be based on facts which may have occurred after the original bill was filed, but before the cross bill was filed. Therefore, the demurrer to the cross bill, attacking it for that reason was properly overruled, and the decree should be affirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Jackson““ * * * While as a rule the dismissal of an original bill carries with it the cross bill, that is not true where the cross bill alleges facts which show a right to equitable relief and prays for it.” Mathison v. Mathison, 267 Ala. 101 , 100 So.2d 11, 13 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crawford v. Espalla
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.