Mumma v. Mumma’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Moore v. Moore (1978), E.R.B. v. J.H.F. (1985)
27 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 Vaca v. Sipes · People ex rel. Moffett v. Bates · Wheeler v. Wheeler · Oxley v. Oxley · Reilly v. Reilly
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is essential that in exercising [its] discretion the trial court first determine the net income (or a reasonable approximation of such) from which a portion is to be set aside for alimony and support payments, as these items are recurring expenditures. Such a determination is also relevant to the question of the appropriate sum to be allowed the opposing party for counsel fees and other expenses incident to the litigation. [Mumma v. Mumma, D.C.App., 280 A.2d 73, 76 (1971) (footnote omitted).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Moore“[I]f the wife were found to have some interest, some claim of right, whether legal or equitable, in the property involved it is settled that in a divorce proceeding the court may adjudicate the property rights of the spouses, and award the wife property which belongs to her. [/d.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGean v. McGean
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.