Arnold v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 1989 · most notably White v. White (1979), Kaiser v. Kaiser (1971)
34 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Herrick v. Herrick · Cole v. Cole · Craig v. Craig · Smith v. Smith · Byerly v. Byerly
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[P]laintiff s first contention is based upon the theory that the amount of alimony to which she is entitled should now be based upon a station in life measured by defendant’s present wealth and earning capacity, rather than upon their station in life when the divorce decree was entered in 1931. # # # “* * * The station in life to which he had accustomed her was that existing in 1931 and prior thereto. It is that station in life which he is bound to maintain now, if he is financially able so to do.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.