Palmi v. Palmi’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Neujahr v. Neujahr (1986), In Re LaBelle's Trust (1974)
33 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 Kiesow v. Kiesow · Stieler v. Ostrander · Ruprecht v. Ruprecht · Krick v. Krick · F. Tru. Sav. Bk. v. U.S. Fid. Gua.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Interpretation of a divorce decree that is ambiguous or uncertain on its face and, because of its language, is of doubtful meaning or open to diverse constructions, may be clarified by the tribunal that ordered it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[c]onstruction of its own decree by the trial court must be given great weight in determining the intent of the trial court.”
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.