Strope v. Strope’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Kanaan v. Kanaan (1995), White v. White (1982)
34 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 Braine v. Braine · Hall v. Hall · Reynolds v. Reynolds · Segalla v. Segalla · Hudson v. Hudson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the court to overturn the agreement, there must be evidence presented from which it can be concluded that the [agreement] was unfair, unjust and unreasonable and so found by the court, [citations omitted.] And the mere statement by the court that it is dissatisfied with the [agreement] is an insufficient basis for rejecting any of the terms of the agreement. “In divorce proceedings a contract between husband and wife relating to alimony will be recognized and enforced if it appears to the court to be reasonable and fair to the parties and not collusive, [citations omitted.] The record must demonstrate a compelling reason for the court not accepting the [agreement] and a justification of its order.” (Our insertions.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stockton v. Stockton
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.