Spaulding v. Spaulding’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1995 · most notably In Re the Marriage of Vetternack (1983), Mears v. Mears (1973)
26 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 Addy v. Addy · Stillmunkes Ex Rel. Stillmunkes v. Stillmunkes · Dworak v. Dworak · Wells v. Wells · Sandler v. Sandler
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some material change must be shown in the circumstances of the parties, financially or otherwise, making it equitable that other or different terms be imposed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This required material and substantial change must have occurred since the date of the original decree or any subsequent intervening proceeding which considered the situation and rights of the parties upon an application for the same relief.”
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.