237 Mo. App. 744 - Poor v. Poor’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1987
21 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 223 Mo. App. 1087 - Abel v. Ingram · Wyrick v. Wyrick · Stark v. Stark
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the decree was an approval of the contract, and not an award of alimony, because the court had no authority to make an award of alimony to continue so long as the wife remained single and unmarried, but did have authority to approve a contract between the parties containing that provision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tysdal v. Tysdal“"It is our conclusion that * * * there is not sufficient change in the conditions of the parties * * * to warrant the court changing the original decree, except as to the rights of visitation."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pulliam v. Sutton
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.