Blake v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““These cases have discussed the question involved in this appeal in all its aspects, and the law in.this state must be considered as settled that every provision made for the Support of a wife in a divorce case, whether it be a gross sum or payments to be made annually or otherwise, or if it be personal property to be delivered, is presumed to be for alimony, whether so expressly stated or not, and that the court may afterwards, under changed circumstances, modify such judgment as may be just to the parties; and no such judgment' will be construed to be a division and partition of the estate of the husband, under the statutes, unless it be so expressly declared by the judgment of the court. This being so, and considering the findings of fact and conclusions of law a part of the judgment, there is nothing in this case which shows that there was any division of the estate of the husband under the statute; and so the judgment is subject to be modified by the court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lally v. Lally