Church v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Gillikin v. Burbage (1965), 6 N.C. App. 201 - Sebastian v. Kluttz (1969)
56 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 Fuchs v. Fuchs · Goodyear v. Goodyear · Davis v. . Bass · Turner v. Turner · 17 Cal. 2d 718 - Kamper v. Waldon
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . The terms of the contract under consideration are plain and unambiguous. The parties provided for those contingencies which would, upon occurrence, reduce Charles H. Hancock’s stipulated monthly payments. They were the plaintiff’s remarriage and the death of a child or children. The separation agreement contained no provision for a reduction in the event of a child’s marriage. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mullen v. Sawyer
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.