Fellows v. Fellows’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably 339 So. 2d 835 - Ducote v. Ducote (1976), Sillman v. Sillman (1975)
44 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 Smith v. Smith · Brown v. Harris · Rabun v. Rabun · Stabler v. Stabler · White v. Morris
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under our jurisprudence, alimony pendente lite, both for the wife and minor children terminates with a judgment of divorce. Worley v. Worley, supra; White v. Morris, 236 La. 767 , 109 So.2d 87 (1959); Davidson v. Jenkins, 216 So. 2d 682 (La.App.3rd Cir. 1968). Therefore, the alimony and child support award contained in the separation judgment terminated when the judgment of divorce was signed, Mrs. Fellows, at the trial of the divorce, was not seeking to change a previous award of alimony, which she was not required to do, but instead, she was seeking to prove the basis for a new award."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Hughes · Bowman v. Bowman“"Under the provisions of LSA-CC Arts. 227, 230, and 231, the obligation to support, maintain, and educate minor children is contracted by the parents by the very act of marrying, and nourishment, lodging, support, and education are provided in proportion to the wants of those requiring and according to the circumstances of those who are to pay. Modern application of these basic rules recognizes that children are thus entitled by birthright to a life during their minority harmonious with the father's station."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Art. 37. Age of majority. "Art. 37. Persons of the age of eighteen years shall be considered of full age and until they attain that age, shall be minors. A person who is eighteen years of age or older shall be regarded as being fully emancipated, shall be considered adults and shall have the same rights, duties, responsibilities and capacities as persons who are twenty-one years of age or older."”
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.