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← 307 MASS 96 - Schillander v. Schillander

Schillander v. Schillander’s Empirical Analysis

1940

Citation profile

56
cited by 56 later decisions
6
states following
June 2009
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Knox v. Remick (1976), Freeman v. Sieve (1949)

7 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions

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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 French v. McAnarney · Wilson v. Caswell · Bailey v. Dillon · Gediman v. Cameron · Bradford v. Bradford

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

  1. ““Its terms show that the parties intended that it should continue in effect after a decree of divorce, (cite omitted) The decree does not mention alimony or incorporate the agreement and so could not have been accepted as a substitute for the husband’s contractual obligation. (cite omitted) The agreement remains valid and may still be enforced by action at law after the decree.” Id. at 98 , 29 N.E.2d at 687 .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Fabrizio v. Fabrizio · Weiner v. Weiner
  2. “The essence of his petition and of his argument before us is that he should be relieved from full performance of a binding contract to which he is a party and which he now finds burdensome, and that the court should substitute for it some less onerous obligation. . . . [Id. at 687-688.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Lanahan v. Nevius

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.