Mattox v. Cassady’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Ellie, Inc. v. Miccichi (2004), Lindsay v. Lindsay (1997)
1 federal appellate · 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 White v. White · Moseley v. Mosier · Scoville v. Scoville · Klutts Resort Realty, Inc. v. Down'Round Development Corp. · Bruce v. Blalock
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To show that the alimony award was part of a property settlement agreement, it must be shown that the wife surrendered property rights in return for the husband's agreement to pay the stated sums.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miles v. Miles“However, where 'the language of a * settlement agreement is susceptible of more than one interpretation, it is the duty of the court to ascertain the intentions of the parties.'”
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.