Eckert v. Eckert’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Marriage of Karon v. Karon (1989), Loo v. Loo (1994)
30 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 4 Cal. 2d 356 - McClure v. McClure · Warner v. Warner · McCarthy v. McCarthy · Snyder v. Snyder · Jordan v. Jordan
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * By the initial decree of the court the parties’ marriage was dissolved and the extent of their mutual obligations was as imposed by the court at the time of the judgment. By the subsequent order of the court, any obligation to pay alimony was to cease on December 31, 1972, unless, prior to that time, a petition for review of the alimony requirement was made. Once that date passed without petition, the parties were no longer under any obligation imposed by the court. The court was then without jurisdiction to reinstitute an award of alimony the same as if no alimony had been granted in the first instance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“After an order for maintenance or support money, temporary or permanent, * * * the court may from time to time, on petition of either of the parties * * * modify the order respecting the amount of maintenance or support money, and the payment of it, * * * and may make an order respecting these matters which it might have made in the original proceeding * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rationale for [that] rule ... is that there can be no modification of something that never existed, and the basis for the rule herein announced is similarly that there cannot be modification of something that has ceased to exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waddey v. Waddey
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.