Collins v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1997
12 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 Palmer v. Main · Muir v. Muir · Jones v. Jones · Day v. Day · Walden v. Walden
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Alimony is that provision which the law makes for the support of the wife in lieu of the husband’s common-law obligation to support her if they had continued living together. (Citations.) A wife should not he denied alimony merely because she may he able to obtain employment and support herself. In fixing the allowance, her age, health, and means to support herself may he considered as well as the husband’s income, earning capacity, health, age, and ability to labor, hut she should not he required to assume the risks of illness and unemployment.””
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.