Devore v. Devore’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1982
9 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 Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Sistare v. Sistare · Matilda Von Ellert Sistare v. Horace Randall Sistare · City of Shreveport v. Dickason · Folks v. Folks
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A provision in a valid divorce decree for alimony or child support, payable in installments, is a final judgment within the full faith and credit clause of the Federal Constitution insofar as accrued installments are concerned unless, by the law of the state where rendered, the decree is subject to modification as to accrued installments at the discretion of the court; and where the decree is final and not subject to such subsequent modification, it must be recognized and enforced without modification of accrued installments in a suit arising in a state other than the one in which the decree was rendered. Barber v. Barber, 21 How. 582 , 16 L. Ed. 226 ; Sistare v. Sistare, 218 U.S. 1 , 30 S.Ct. 682 , 54 L.Ed. 905 , 28 L.R.A., N.S., 1068; 157 A.L.R. 170 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Succession of King
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.