339 So. 2d 839 - Ward v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Loyacano v. Loyacano (1978), McAlpine v. McAlpine (1996)
62 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 Smith v. Smith · 283 So. 2d 226 - Bernhardt v. Bernhardt · Vicknair v. Vicknair · Brown v. Harris · Eals v. Swan
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the spouse has not a sufficient income for maintenance pending suit for separation from bed and board or for divorce, the judge may allow the claimant spouse, whether plaintiff or defendant, a sum for that spouse's support, proportioned to the needs of the claimant spouse and the means of the other spouse.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"This alimony after divorce is not awarded in an amount sufficient to support the former wife in the manner in which she is accustomed to live; rather, it is awarded in an amount sufficient to provide for her maintenance, which includes food, clothing, shelter, and other basic necessities; and the wife has the burden of establishing her necessitous circumstances. Bernhardt v. Bernhardt, supra [ 283 So.2d 226 ]; Vicknair v. Johnson ( Vicknair ), 237 La. 1032 , 112 So.2d 702 (1959); Stabler v. Stabler, 226 La. 70 , 75 So.2d 12 (1954)." ( 339 So.2d 839, 842 )”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Insofar as current earnings of the wife are concerned, they are treated no differently than other income. When she receives earnings, they become means for her support. Such earnings must be taken into account in awarding alimony." Id. p. 842.”
4 later decisions 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.