Coe v. Coe’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010
15 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 Coe v. Coe · Helvering v. Fuller · Lewis v. Lewis · Sweeney v. Sweeney · Schillander v. Schillander
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the Nevada Court could change the terms of the contract, or terminate the contract, are not the questions now before us. It did not and has not. The decree in no way nullifies or terminates the contract. The Nevada Court when it granted the divorce reserved no right to change, imposed no conditions, and ordered no alimony. On the contrary, it ordered the parties and each of them ‘to comply with the terms thereof.’ It is, therefore, not a decree with provision for alimony that is in issue, but the terms of a contract. There was no merger as claimed by the defendant and no order by the Nevada Court that prevents action on the contract. In fact, by the very terms of the Court’s decree the contract itself determines the property and other financial rights of the parties.” 71 A. 2d, at page 516 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schlemm v. Schlemm
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.