Button v. Button’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2006
1 district · 10 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 Maddox v. Maddox · White v. Shalit · Wilson v. Wilson · Mahaney v. Crocker
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of specific provision otherwise in the decree of divorce, the Court may enforce in the divorce action the obligations theretofore incurred and unfulfilled in the temporary order. Thus the provision in the decree in the case at bar was not necessary to keep alive jurisdiction to enforce the temporary order to the extent of the arrearages in the required payments. Such order, as we have seen, carries no obligations arising in the future and to this extent may properly be considered to have been terminated by the decree of divorce. The obligations of the past, with the power of enforcement by the Court, remain unaffected, except as otherwise ordered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vetsch v. Vetsch
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.