St. Clair v. St. Clair’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably Parish v. Parish (1976), McCain v. McCain (1976)
36 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 Wolf v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association · Myers v. Shell Petroleum Corp. · In re Bort · Gardner v. Gardner · Nunez v. Wilson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The decree may award to either party an allowance for future support denominated as alimony, in such amount as the court shall find to be fair, just and equitable under all of the circumstances. The decree may make the future payments conditional or terminable under circumstances prescribed therein. The allowance may be in a lump sum or in periodic payments or on a percentage of earnings or on any other basis. At any time, on a hearing with reasonable notice to the party affected, the court may modify the amounts or other conditions for the payment of any portion of the alimony originally awarded that have not already become due, but no modification shall be made, without the consent of the party liable for the alimony, if it has the effect of increasing or accelerating the liability for the unpaid alimony beyond what was prescribed in the original decree.” Emphasis supplied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Nelson““When the issue of child custody is between the parents, it is an elementary rule in this state that if children are of tender age they almost of necessity must be entrusted to their mother’s care, without weighing unduly what may be some possible short comings in, the mother’s character or conduct.” (Syl. ¶ 2.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Patton v. Patton““Under K. S. A. 1972 Supp. 60-1610 (b) the trial court is directed to divide the property of the parties in a just and reasonable manner. Thus, the subject is largely entrusted to the discretion of the trial court. . . .” (pp. 498-499.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McClaren v. McClaren
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.