Lyons v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1991
18 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 Jarvis v. State · Whitt v. Whitt · Sims v. Sims · Keith v. Paden · Woodward Iron Company v. Stringfellow
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The provision in the decree of the court for allowance to be paid by the husband for the support of the minor children is in a sense a feature of the alimony provision. * * * When the court retains jurisdiction to modify the allowance for the children, there should be and is reserved, in that respect, the right to award an attorney’s fee when the same is appropriate or necessary in the opinion of the court.””
1 later decision 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.