Chapman v. Parsons’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1970
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Erkenbrach v. . Erkenbrach · People Ex Rel. Commissioners of Public Charities & Correction v. Cullen · Cariens v. Cariens · Stewart v. Stewart · Powhatan Coal & Coke Co. v. Ritz
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Maintenance of the wife by the husband is alone incident to the marriage relation. There is no duty to furnish maintenance when that relation does not exist. Alimony is cognizable by a court only in regard to the relation of husband and wife. It springs from marital duties. The statutes to which we have referred plainly recognize that the marital relation is the source of alimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brady v. Brady
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.