Gilbert v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2001
8 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 Mayor of Wilmington v. State · Du Pont v. Du Pont · Du Pont v. Du Pont · Gilbert v. Gilbert
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court may grant alimony to the wife for her sustenance pending her petition for divorce, and order and direct the husband to pay such sum as is deemed necessary to defray the expenses in conducting her case, whether the application is on the part of either the wife or husband, and shall protect her from personal restraint. The Court, in the execution of the powers conferred by this chapter, may employ such compulsory process as it deems proper.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Primarily the function of the power is to equalize the positions of the parties and to protect the court’s jurisdiction over the pending divorce cause by insuring that the wife’s side will be adequately and effectively presented.””
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.