Franklin v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably Marriage of Fenn v. Fenn (1993), Kennedy v. Kennedy (1963)
46 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 Porter v. Porter · Rundle v. Winters · Lawson v. Ridgeway · Schwartz v. Schwartz · Schuster v. Schuster
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the final judgment of divorce the court may, in addition to division of the common property of the parties or in lieu thereof, direct the husband to pay to the wife such amounts as are necessary for support and maintenance of the wife and minor children of the parties whose custody is awarded to the wife, as may he necessary or proper. The court may adjudge that the amount be paid in one mm or in installments. * * *" (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cummings v. Lockwood
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.