Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably Schuler v. Schuler (1981), Pope v. Pope (1997)
28 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 Epps v. Epps · Garlington v. Garlington · Colton v. Colton · Murray v. Murray · Whitt v. Whitt
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.
““A professional man with large potential earnings but who-has spent his earnings in extravagant living is in no position to contend that his wife and children are not entitled to support and maintenance because he had not accumulated an estate nor can he shield himself from such obligation by a willful abandonment of his earning capacity in order to defeat such obligation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The test is whether the former husband . . . in good faith enters into a new occupation at a reduced income. If such be the circumstances, he should be permitted to make such change of occupation even though it might require his former wife . . . to share in hardship attending the change. If the family had remained together the husband would have had the right to make such choice. "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are to be considered as future alimony payments not to become due until five months after Dr. Thomas has completed his residency, when . . . he may have the question of excess amounts again considered by the 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.