Ellis v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Bogan v. Bogan (2001), In Re the Marriage of Kern (1987)
29 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 66 Wash. 2d 503 - Lambert v. Lambert · Crosby v. Crosby · 42 Ill. App. 3d 240 - Glass v. Peitchel · Page v. Page · 163 Pa. Super. 502 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Mazon v. Mazon
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a substantial change in circumstances from the time the decree was entered making it equitable and just that different terms be fixed. A decree is not to be modified unless its enforcement will be attended by positive wrong or injustice as a result of the changed conditions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“retirement will not constitute a ground for reduction of future payments), Moseley v. Moseley, 216 So.2d 852, 854 (La. Ct. App. 1968) (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“obligations in and apart from family life compel many persons to maintain employment which may be difficult, undesirable and even physically or mentally painful.”
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.