Nelson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably 17 Cal. 2d 108 - Biewend v. Biewend (1941), Sleicher v. Sleicher (1929)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 96 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Sistare v. Sistare · Matilda Von Ellert Sistare v. Horace Randall Sistare · 3 E.H. Smith 520 - Wetmore v. . Wetmore · Craig v. Craig · Southworth v. Treadwell
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If not otherwise impelled thereto, we would be constrained to hold for reasons of public policy alone that the courts of this state have no power to revoke or modify an installment of alimony which has accrued prior to the making of an application therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“merely affords the opportunity from time to time as new conditions arise to more exactly determine the extent of the loss suffered by the wife.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelson v. Nelson““A judgment for alimony from year to year is subject to the same incidents as other judgments rendered in actions at law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tatum v. Davis
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.