Decker v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 1977 · most notably Holmstedt v. Holmstedt (1943), 47 Ill. App. 3d 258 - Collins v. Collins (1977)
30 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 Cole v. Cole · Johnson v. Johnson · Harding v. Harding · Harding v. Harding · Champion v. Myers
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After the equities of the parties in the property are adjusted, then the husband should be caused to pay or not to pay a further sum for support and maintenance in money payments at stated intervals, according to whether or not the wife is equitably entitled to further payment after a consideration of all the facts that enter into a proper solution of that question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dahlberg v. Dahlberg
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.