Richards v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

56 state decisions

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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Under R.L.H. 1955, § 324-34, we think that a wife Avho has sufficient means to live in her accustomed manner, and to prosecute her libel for divorce, without impairing the capital of her separate estate, is not entitled to temporary alimony or expenses of trial. Spreckels v. Spreckels, 111 Cal. App. 2d 529 , 244 P.2d 917 ; Loeb v. Loeb, 84 Cal. App. 2d 141 , 190 P.2d 246 ; Markland v. Markland, 155 Fla. 629 , 21 So.2d 145 . But, in our opinion, the statute does not require a wife to impair her capital, and if her income is insufficient for the maintenance of her accustomed standard of living and for the efficient prosecution of her libel, she may be awarded temporary alimony to supplement her income and may be allowed reasonable expenses of trial. Of course, due consideration must be given to the financial resources of the husband. Steiner v. Steiner, 254 Ala. 260 , 48 So.2d 184 ; Sigesmund v. Sigesmund, 115 Cal. App. 2d 628 , 252 P.2d 713 ; Harding v. Harding, 144 Ill. 589 , 32 N.E. 206 ; Waters v. Waters, 191 Md. 436 , 62 A.2d 250 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fowler v. Fowler

2. “Upon granting a divorce, the cqurt may make such further orders as shall appear just and equitable compelling the parties or either of them to provide for the support, maintenance, and education of the children of the parties and compelling either party to provide for the support and maintenance of the other party and finally dividing and distributing the estate of the parties, real, personal, or mixed, whether community, joint, or separate. In making such further orders, the court shall take into consideration the respective merits of the parties, the relative abilities of the parties, the condition in which each party will be left by the divorce, the burdens imposed upon either party for the benefit of the children of the parties, and all other circumstances of the case, but no such final division of estate shall impair the power of the court to revise allowances for children.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Farias v. Farias

3. “Whenever it shall be made to appear to the judge after the filing of any libel, that the wife is under restraint or in destitute circumstances, the judge may pass such orders to secure her personal liberty and reasonable support, pending the libel, as law and justice may require, and may enforce such orders by summary process. The judge may also compel the husband to advance reasonable amounts for the compensation of witnesses and other reasonable expenses of trial to be incurred by the wife. The judge may revise and amend such orders from time to time.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cain v. Cain