Lynde v. Lynde’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1982 · most notably Thompson v. Thompson (1913), Martindell v. Martindell (1956)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Charles Lynde v. Mary W Lynde Mary W Lynde · Taylor v. Bemiss · Lynde v. . Lynde · Jordan v. Westerman · Bowling Green Savings Bank v. . Todd
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the allowance of permanent alimony in cases of absolute divorce, as a means of enforcing the continuing duty of support which the husband owed to the wife, and of which he was not permitted to absolve himself by his own misconduct, although that misconduct resulted in a dissolution of the marriage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statutory scheme is modeled closely after the practice of the ecclesiastical courts of England with reference to alimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cohen v. Cohen“imposed as a personal duty upon the husband for the personal benefit and support of the wife, or of the wife and children,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cohen v. Cohen
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.