Ross v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1939
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 Cooper v. Mayhew
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.
““It is only in cases where it is made to appear, by the bill of complaint or petition, that the wife has no separate property of her own to support herself and enable her to carry on her suit, and her husband has property, that the court will compel him to make a suitable allowance for her maintenance and to enable her to employ counsel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prost v. Prost
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.