DuBoise v. DuBoise’s Empirical Analysis

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43 state decisions

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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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We are not cited to any case which holds that a court can reserve power to-amend a ‘property settlement,’ as distinguished from an allowance of alimony which is payable in installments for the-support of the wife and children. s}; jji 4* “As reasoned in Epps v. Epps, [ 218 Ala. 667 , 120 So. 150 ], the power of the court to modify a provision for periodic support payments is derived from the continuous nature of such a provision. A property settlement is not continuous; it is a one time thing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Amason v. Amason

2. “As reasoned in Epps v. Epps, supra, the power of the court to modify a provision for periodic support payments is derived from the continuous nature of such a provision. A property settlement is not continuous; it is a one time thing. We incline to the view that the rule permitting a court to modify a provision for period support payments does not apply to a provision for division of property....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Delaine v. Delaine (In Re Delaine)

3. “"`The allowance in the case at bar will be considered and construed in accordance with its substance and not its mere form. If, when so considered, the effect of the decree rendered was not that of a division of property, but of an allowance of alimony payable by installments for the support of the wife and children, it may be modified.'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brunner v. Ormsby