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← 188 La. 660 - Snow v. Snow

Snow v. Snow’s Empirical Analysis

1937

Citation profile

97
cited by 97 later decisions
4
states following
June 2015
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 89 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Pisciotto v. Crucia (1954), 388 So. 2d 377 - Dubroc v. Dubroc (1980)

2 federal appellate · 89 state decisions

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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 · Charles Lynde v. Mary W Lynde Mary W Lynde · Abrams v. Rosenthal

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

  1. “that a judgment for the payment of alimony in the future may be canceled as to alimony which has accumulated since the judgment was rendered, on the defendant's complaining, after failing to pay the alimony, that he was unable to pay it when it came due.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “was right in maintaining that he had no authority to release the defendant from his debt for the past-due installments of alimony.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “is a very different thing from releasing him from the debt itself.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.