18 Md. App. 626 - Simpson v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably 78 Md. App. 570 - Bricker v. Bricker (1989), 50 Md. App. 240 - Hofmann v. Hofmann (1981)
34 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 Dickey v. Dickey · Knabe v. Knabe · Grossman v. Grossman · Wallingsford v. Wallingsford · Bebermeyer v. Bebermeyer
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. Alimony is a money allowance payable under a judicial decree by a husband at stated intervals to his wife, or former wife, during their joint lives or until the remarriage of the wife, so long as they live separately, for her support and maintenance. “a. It must terminate on the remarriage of the wife. “b. It must terminate on the death of the wife. “c. It must terminate on the death of the husband. “d. If the parties have entered into an agreement providing for payments which meet the required characteristics of alimony, the court may adopt the agreement in ordering the payment of alimony. “e. Alimony ordered by the court is always subject to reconsideration and modification by the court in the light of changed circumstances. “f. Payment of alimony may be enforced by the court by the exercise of its contempt power, including attachment and imprisonment of the person. “2. If the parties have entered into an agreement providing for payments which do not meet all of the requirements of alimony, the court may nonetheless incorporate all or part of the agreement in its decree. However, the obligation to pay rests upon the agreement of the parties, and does not become alimony. ‘ ‘a. Such payments may not be modified by the court, in the absence of collusion, mistake, or fraud. “b. Such payments do not take the character of alimony because they are described as alimony. “c. Such payments do not take the character of alimony because the parties by their agreement or the court in”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If * * * the allowance to the wife in the decree is the result of a previous agreement between the spouses and does not fall within the accepted definition of alimony, so that it would have been impossible for the chancellor to have allowed permanent alimony as the decree provides, then, notwithstanding the parties and even the court called it alimony, the allowance for the wife in the decree was not alimony, and a court of equity has no power to modify the decree as in the case of an award of alimony.””
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.