Elliott v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Misthopoulos v. Misthopoulos (2010), Koper v. Koper (1989)
37 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 Weiman v. Weiman · Tobey v. Tobey · Sanchione v. Sanchione · Carpenter v. Carpenter · Grinold v. Grinold
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"First, like unpaid installments of an alimony award entered at the time of dissolution, accrued and unpaid installments of alimony pendente lite are, in effect, debts which have become vested rights of property which the court cannot take away.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“encourage[s] spouses to delay [abiding by a pendente lite order] until the time of dissolution, hoping that the [pendente lite] order ... would be forgiven or changed at that time.”
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.