Stark v. Stark’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 1969
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Winter v. . Winter · Stoddard v. . Stoddard · Anthis v. Sullivan Oil & Gas Co. · Richards v. Richards · Bankers Reserve Life Co. v. Rice
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.
““Fairness of husband’s agreement to pay separate maintenance or alimony to wife must be determined in light of circumstances existing when contract was made, and change in husband’s circumstances creating hardship or inability to perform is not a valid defense to wife’s suit for installments due under contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Clark““Separation contracts entered into by husband and wife are valid and enforceable in the absence of fraud, overreaching, or unconscionable conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Witt v. Witt
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.