Miles v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably Kelley v. Kelley (1925), Allison v. Allison (1961)
25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By section 645 of the code (Gen. Stat. 1901, § 5138) it is expressly provided: “ ‘When a divorce is granted the court shall make provision for guardianship, custody, support and education of the minor children of the marriage, and may modify or change any order in this respect whenever circumstances render such change proper.’ “This section leaves the matter entirely in the hands of the court. It may at any time upon proper notice, change any former order made with reference to these matters by adding to, or taking from, the burdens of either party relative to the same; . . .” (p.678.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This section leaves the matter entirely in the hands of the court. It may at any time, upon proper notice, change any former order made with reference to these matters by adding to, or taking from, the burdens of either party relative to the same. . . . This statute has the effect to repose in the court the right and duty to require divorced parents properly to care for, maintain and educate their children, notwithstanding the fact of the divorce, and to make such orders relative to payments of money from time to time until this result has been fully effectuated. Such orders may be made by the court upon its own motion, or upon the suggestion of any one immediately or remotely interested.” (Miles v. Miles, 65 Kan. 676, 678, 679 , 70 Pac. 631 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Riggs v. Riggs““While the prayer of the motion was that the judgment be modified, we find from the entire motion that the object thereof was only to have provision made for the support, maintenance and education of the minor children. This was not a modification of the original judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Effland v. Effland
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.