Stanfield v. Stanfield’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1988
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.
Relationships
Relies on Sistare v. Sistare · Matilda Von Ellert Sistare v. Horace Randall Sistare · Stanfield v. Stanfield
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Alimony decreed to a wife in a divorce is as much a debt, until the decree is recalled or modified, as any judgment for money is.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grattan v. Tillman
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.