Shaw v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1950
5 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 Cole v. Cole · Plaster v. Plaster
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Where, in a decree for divorce, the Avife is given a sum in gross as for alimony, it is held to be in full, discharge and satisfaction of all claim for future support. So far as the decree relates to that subject, it is at an end, and the court has no jurisdiction to modify it at a subsequent term.””
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.