Speckler v. Speckler’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably Rutherford v. Katzenberger (1983), Brown v. Brown (1980)
38 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 Zouck v. Zouck · Dackman v. Dackman · Johnson v. Johnson · McCabe v. McCabe · Johnson v. Johnson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person shall be imprisoned for debt, but a valid decree of a court of competent jurisdiction or agreement approved by decree of said court for the support of a wife or dependent children, or for the support of an illegitimate child or children, or for alimony, shall not constitute a debt within the meaning of this section.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Soldano v. Soldano“"No person shall be imprisoned for debt, but a valid decree of a court of competent jurisdiction or agreement approved by decree of said court for the support of a wife or dependent children, or for alimony, shall not constitute a debt within the meaning of this section.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blum v. Blum
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.