Stephen v. Stephen’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2012
11 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 Gibbons v. Gibbons · Thielenhaus v. Thielenhaus · Robert L. Wheeler, Inc. v. Scott · Gorham v. Gorham · Rice v. Rice
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. C. Upon granting a decree of divorce or separate maintenance, the court may require either party to pay such reasonable expenses of the a« other as may be just and proper under the circumstances. D. The court may in its discretion make additional orders relating to the expenses of any such subsequent actions, including but not limited to writs of habeas corpus, brought by the parties or their attorneys, for the enforcement or modification of any interlocutory or final orders in the divorce action made for the benefit of either party or their respective attorneys."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kerby v. Kerby“the temporal, moral and mental welfare of the child would be”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. Scott
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.