Howard v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1984
10 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 Wait v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Bostwick v. Allen · Curtis v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. · McDougal v. McDougal · Noll v. Noll
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“alimony pending the suit for divorce in all cases where the same would be just, whether the wife be plaintiff or defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the category of alimony pendente lite embraces and includes allowances for suit money, support, and attorney's fees,”
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.