Bart v. Bart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 17 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[t]he power of the court [to modify an alimony judgment] can not be cut down by the failure of the wife to ask for its exercise at a time when she perhaps did not want it. She did not delay very long after she claims it was made necessary for her to have some support. No harm has been done the [husband] by her failure to ask before. In fact he has been financially benefited because he has been free from any payments for nine years. He may not have expected any further demands upon him, but he is presumed to know that demands might be made upon him, and he is not injured by the fact that they were not * * 182 Md. at 480 , 35 A.2d at 127 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nace v. Nace

2. ““* * * It is true that the determination of what is or what is not alimony does not depend on what it is called (Emerson v. Emerson, 120 Md. 584 , 87 A. 1033 ), * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 16 Md. App. 17 - Woodall v. Woodall