Simpson v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2022
20 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 Matilda Von Ellert Sistare v. Horace Randall Sistare · Parker v. Parker · 4 Cal. App. 97 - Soule v. Soule · McKay v. McKay · State ex rel. Brown v. Brown
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, the rule is well established that the authority to modify such a decree can only be exercised upon a showing of material, permanent, and substantial change in the circumstances and conditions of the parties * * *. And the burden of showing such changed circumstances is upon the party seeking the modification.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daniels v. Daniels““Remarriage of divorced husband is no- ground for reducing the amount of alimony and support money to former wife and minor child, even though such remarriage is a drain on his financial resources.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Lewis
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.