Sheard v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 1988 · most notably Holliday v. Holliday (1978), 335 So. 2d 64 - Valvoline Oil Company v. Krauss (1976)
38 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 Pryor v. Pryor · Navarrette v. Laughlin · McCue v. McCue · Russo v. Russo · Welch v. Jacobsmeyer
Most-quoted passages
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“"Under our law, such a contract as the one involved in this suit would be absolutely null and void if entered into prior to judicial separation or divorce. Civil Code Articles 1790, 2446; Guillot v. Guillot, 141 La. 86 , 74 So. 704 ; Marks v. Loewenberg, 143 La. 196 , 78 So. 444 , Russo v. Russo, 205 La. 852 , 18 So.2d 318 . The only way such an agreement under our law is binding is to have it incorporated in the judgment of divorce or have it entered into subsequent to the dissolution of the marriage community. The attack on the contract in this case under Louisiana law is an attack on the judgment of divorce and the only question that this court can consider with respect to a divorce decree of a sister state is the jurisdictional requirement of domicile. * * *»”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Gray · Wayne v. Reynolds““A separation agreement embodied in a foreign divorce decree may not be attacked without making a direct attack on the decree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Gray
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