Van Loon v. Van Loon’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably Blanton v. Blanton (1944), Orr Ex Rel. Walton v. Orr (1939)
87 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 United States v. Jin Fuey Moy · Sistare v. Sistare · Matilda Von Ellert Sistare v. Horace Randall Sistare · Livingston v. . Livingston · In re Seizure of 7 Barrels of Wine
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here past-due installment payments of alimony under a valid judicial decree remain unpaid, they do constitute vested property rights of which the party cannot be deprived except by due process of law. [Citations omitted.] The statute operates prospectively to authorize modifications of alimony decrees as to future payments from the date of application, to the extent authorized by valid provisions in the statute [or as authorized by Frye ], even though the court had not expressly reserved authority to change or modify a decree when it was rendered.”
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.