Lide v. Lide’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Lewis v. Lewis (2011), Johnson v. Johnson (1988)
57 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 Nienow v. Nienow · Powers v. Powers
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the financial condition of the husband and the needs of the wife, (2) the age and the health of the parties, their respective earning capacity, their individual wealth, (3) the wife’s contribution to the accumulation of their joint wealth, (4) the conduct of the parties, (5) the respective necessities of the parties, (6) the standard of living of the wife at the time of the divorce, (7) the duration of the marriage, (8) the ability of the husband to pay alimony, and (9) the actual income of the parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Luthi v. Luthi · Voelker v. Hillock“the trial judge abused his discretion in denying alimony to the wife”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Lewis
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.