Weldy v. Weldy’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2017
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Heretofore we have not had occasion to determine whether under our statutes there is power in the court to modify accrued payments of alimony due under a decree of divorce. There is nothing in our statute which permits it. * ⅜ * # ⅜ ⅜ “There being no statutory authorization for modification of a judgment for accrued and unpaid alimony, we must hold that the creditor has a vested right therein.” Weldy v. Weldy, supra, 20 N.W.2d at 590 and 591.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richter v. Richter
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.