Goggans v. Osborn’s Empirical Analysis
237 F.2d 186 · 1956
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 450 F. Supp. 919 - Stone v. Stone (1978), Maitlen v. Maitlen (1981)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Audubon v. Shufeldt · Puckett v. Puckett · Dickey v. Dickey · 130 Ohio St. 214 - Holloway v. Holloway
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * # Although parties may contract as between themselves concerning the amount of alimony the allowance of alimony is incidental to the divorce procedure and requires the court’s intervention to give it validity. “A decree providing for alimony, whether or not based upon a contract, may be modified or terminated upon the death of the husband, the remarriage of the wife or a change in the financial condition of the parties. * * * “These consequences flow from a decree for the payment of alimony because the duty to pay alimony, as well as support money for children, is public in nature. The community as a whole is vitally concerned * * [Footnotes omitted.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he provisions of a property[-]settlement agreement are governed by the law of contracts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.