Shepherd v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1985
15 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 Brown v. Farkas · Allen v. Withrow · Davis v. Welch · Robbins v. Robbins · Joel Bailey Davis Inc. v. Poole
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“section of the agreement makes it a property settlement, which is not terminable under Georgia law upon her remarriage. The Shepherd Court stated that the § 30-209, which was amended by § 19-6-5, does not apply to the provisions of a contract making property divisions. The agreement between the parties in Shepherd provided that there would be a payment of ten dollars ($10.00) per month as alimony so long as Mrs. Shepherd remained unmarried, and, one hundred ninety dollars ($190.00) per month for a period of one hundred four (104) months as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(b) All obligations for permanent alimony, however created, the time for performance of which has not arrived, shall terminate upon remarriage of the party to whom the obligations are owed unless otherwise provided. (Emphasis added)”
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.