129 Cal. App. 62 - Tropp v. Tropp’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 1982
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Wetmore v. Markoe · Horace Dunbar v. Lottie E Dunbar · Audubon v. Shufeldt · Barclay v. Barclay
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It appears entirely clear that the agreement of the parties provided for two distinct liabilities. In the first para graph of the agreement above set forth, it was expressly agreed that the liability for the monthly payment was one for ‘maintenance and support.’ It was not so agreed with respect to the liability for the payment of the $50,000. ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅝ “. . . We are therefore of the opinion that the trial court correctly concluded that the only liability for ‘maintenance or support’ within the meaning of the Bankruptcy Act was the liability for the monthly payment, and that the remaining liability for the payment of the $50,000 was a ‘debt’ from which respondent was released.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts, whether allowable in full or in part, except such as * * * (2) are liabilities * * * for alimony due or to become due, or for maintenance and support of wife or child * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.