Selinsky v. Selinsky’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1976
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.
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.
““(1) Whenever any legal proceeding is brought for the purpose of enforcing a decree or order of the court, providing for the payment of alimony or support for children, the court may, in the exercise of a sound judicial discretion, allow to the divorced wife such sums of suit money, including a reasonable attorney’s fee, as from the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case shall be fit, equitable and just. “(2) Any order so made under the provisions of this section shall be enforced in the same manner as are other chancery orders or decrees.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mouyois v. Mouyois“constitutes services for the purpose of enforcing the original decree or order for alimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simpson v. Simpson
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.