Manuel v. Manuel’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably 208 Ga. App. 862 - Collins v. Collins (1993), Rogers v. McGahee (2004)
16 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 20 Utah 2d 287 - Erickson v. Beardall · Herbert v. Huggins · Newell v. Newell · Bisno v. Bisno · Green v. Beaumont
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]ebts for alimony or maintenance or support of wife or child are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. It is entirely conceivable that the purpose of a property settlement might be to provide the former wife with maintenance or support.”
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.