17 Md. App. 440 - Lott v. Lott’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Langston v. Langston (2001), 26 Md. App. 620 - Kramer v. Kramer (1975)
31 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 Winkel v. Winkel · 11 Md. App. 638 - Quinn v. Quinn · Marshall v. Marshall · Slacum v. Slacum · Langrall v. Langrall
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems clear from the principles enunciated in the above cited cases and text that a substantial increase in the husband’s income alone can, under appropriate circumstances, be legally sufficient to justify an increase in the amount of alimony even though the wife’s needs continue as they existed at the time of the initial award. Whether or not an increase is justified in such a situation, however, is to be determined by an application to the changed conditions of all the relevant principles that are applied in fixing the amount of the original award of alimony.” (Emphasis added). (Footnotes omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"relitigate matters that were or should have been considered at the time of the original award.... '[A]ll questions concerning alimony which are or ought to be determined in a divorce proceeding are res judicata in a subsequent proceeding in the same jurisdiction.’... It is, of course, equally established that the equity court which made the original award of alimony may modify the award if thereafter there comes about material change in circumstances which justify the action.” Id. at 444-45 , 302 A.2d 669 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is well settled in this State that a court of equity may, for sufficient cause shown, modify a decree for alimony at any time. In so doing, however, it may not litigate matters that were or should have been considered at the time of the initial award.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.